Partition recovery-Article-Solution for the error- Hard drive is not being detected when using a boot diskette

In general partitioning is the act of dividing the storage space of a hard drive into separate data areas known as partitions. There may be different hard drive partitions in a single hard drive with different operating systems. However, if the hard drive of the system is not detected, then the data stored in the partitions become inaccessible. In this case, you can get back your data from the latest backup, but, failing to this, there is no other option except any efficient partition recovery software.


It is likely that you might encounter the below error message while attempting to boot the Windows XP, installed on a particular hard drive partition:
Error:
“Hard drive is not being detected when using a boot diskette.”

Furthermore, you receive the same error message while trying to boot your system from a different operating system installed in a different hard drive partition.

Causes:

Below are some of the prime causes behind the occurrence of the above error message:
Either the hard drive is utilizing a Disk Drive Overlay (DDO) or some other software application is being used on the hard drive.
May be your hard drive is a SCSI (Small Computer Small Interface) hard disk drive.
May be the CMOS is not properly detecting and initializing the hard drive.
Either the hard disk is bad or there is some loose connections.


Resolution:

Check out these steps in order to access the inaccessible data in the hard drive partition:

If your hard drive has utilizing a DDO, ensure that you boot your system normally.
If you are using a SCSI hard drive, check that all the updated device drivers are installed for it.
Make sure that the CMOS is correctly detecting and initializing your hard drive.
Change the BIOS setting from AHCI to IDE.

After checking all the measures, if your are still getting the same error message, then, you have to format the hard drive and make fresh partitions in it. This process will results in complete loss of previously saved data in the hard drive and to recover your lost or formatted data from the hard drive partitions, you need to use any effective Partition Recovery software.

Such Partition Recovery softwares comes with high-end scanning algorithms within it and can successfully recover all the lost data from all hard drive partitions. With their interactive user interface, these partition recovery tools are very easy-to-use without burdening your panic of data loss more.