The partitioning feature makes it easy to use different operating systems on same system which can facilitate hard disk drive to act like a separate disk. High storage capacity has been an icing on the cake. Most of the people today, who find the world of technology fascinating, love to have this arrangement on their computer system. This is called a multi boot configuration.
Although its an advantage but at the same time some negative points are also associated with it. It raises the chances of data loss or data inaccessibility. And then, the user will have little option but to opt for hard drive recovery.
For example , suppose you have a dual boot system with MS Windows XP and RedHat Linux as the two operating systems and one day you fail to access Linux volume and find that the same cannot be mounted. Instead you encounter following error message,
“Can't find ext2 File System on dev ide1 (22, 65)”
Or
“Mount: wrong file system type, bad option, bad super block, or too many mounted file systems”
Possible Reason:
A corrupted volume or file system of the RedHat Linux could be the possible reason for it. The same can happen due to improper shutdown of the system, improper mounting of the hard drive, a virus attack, or any similar reason.
Resolution:
In this situation the user can get access to his hard drive using a hard drive recovery software. In such situations, a user can access his through hard drive recovery. You should boot your system using Windows XP to access your hard drive data. But sometimes, the damage is so high that even the Windows Installation doesn't load. In such dire situations, the user has to check the integrity of the data stored in the hard drive.
To perform a hard drive recovery, the user needs to attach the hard disk drive to another working computer and access this hard drive, save the data on some other media and format the hard drive. But if the drive along with the data is inaccessible, then the user has to first format the hard drive and then use use a data recovery software to first recover the partitions, and then perform hard drive data recovery.
