Windows 7 re-installation may lead to unbootable windows XP partition



In a computer with multi boot environment it is possible to access two or more operating systems at the same time. Different partitions on the hard drive store different OS and likewise OS may be re-installed on any of them. Although being done through a simple process sometime boot loader corruption takes place meanwhile. Particularly in situations when there is either interruption in the process or non systematic follow up of the steps. This may also lead to inaccessibility of other disk partitions as they become unmountable. For overcoming such a problem hard drive has to be formatted with all partitions recreated followed by data restore using backed up data or with windows 7 deleted file recovery tool.


For understanding the problem, consider an example in which their exists Windows XP and windows 7 operating system on a multi boot system. Somehow partition of windows 7 OS gets infected with virus and you are in need of reinstalling it to fix bugs off. But suddenly power fails and the process stops there itself. After wards on system restart, error message as


“NTLDR is missing… press any key to restart”, this makes partition unmountable and data inaccessible. Here in this case improper shutdown of system leads to boot loader corruption.



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For resolving the error so occurred you need to repair unbootable windows XP, following are the steps

  • Hard disk is to be formatted first
  • Partitions are to be recreated
  • Restoring data from the backup,


The above described method is efficient enough for to repair windows XP boot partition, but ends with data loss. Also, in number of cases there is lack of updated backup, which causes severe data loss situation. However windows recovery tools very well enable prevent it, by extensively scanning the drive for locating and restoring data. FAT 16 & FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and VFAT file system are all supported. It supports windows 7, vista, XP etc.



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