Partition Recovery from Cluster Disks in Microsoft Windows

In Microsoft Windows, you can use cluster disks on network that serve purpose of shared storage. The cluster disk is live on one cluster node and other nodes might access the drive concurrently. This environment utilizes central storage system for all nodes in network. But in some situations, this behavior may cause fatal disk corruption and render all your Windows partitions inaccessible. This behavior leads to critical partition loss situations and need Partition Recovery to be handled.
As an example, when several nodes access cluster disk at the same time, the disk may get damaged and you come across any of the below error messages:

“The file or directory X:$Mft is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.”

Or

“Event ID 26
System Process - Lost Delayed-Write Data
The system was attempting to transfer file data from buffers to DeviceHarddisk#Partition#. The write operation failed, and only some of the data may have been written to the file.”

In such cases, all your Windows partitions become inaccessible. In order to gain access of hard drive partitions, you need to find out the cause of this issue and Recover Partition by fixing it.

Root of the problem

The problem occurs if the shared cluster disk has a non-NTFS file system partition (for instance, in the EISA or Extended Industry Standard Architecture configuration). You could use Diskmap utility from Microsoft Windows Resource Kit to check whether the shared hard drive has partition with ID other than 0x07. The ID 0x07 is used by the NTFS file system for NTFS partitions.

Resolution

In order to sort out this problem, you need to download and install latest service pack of Microsoft Windows operating system. You can get it from Microsoft's website.

In an alternative way, you can workaround the problem by removing all non-NTFS partitions from the shard drive. You can use Fdisk tool from Windows boot disk to deleted partitions. Deletion of partitions cause partition loss and you need to go for Partition Recovery Software to recover lost Windows partitions.

The Partition Recovery applications use high-end scanning techniques to carry out in-depth scan of entire drive and retrieve all lost partitions. They come equipped with simple and interactive graphical user interface, thus let you carry out recovery on your own. With read-only and non-destructive conduct, the tools are completely safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an advanced and effective tool that ensures complete recovery in all partition loss situations. It works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. The softwre recovers FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions.

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