How To Create New Partition In Boot Sector

In hard disk partition, every Partition is assigned with an individual partition boot sector. It is also mentioned as volume boot sector. This structure contains all the critical information that the file system requires to access the partition/volume. The hard drive MBR (Master Boot Record) uses the partition boot sector of hard disk partition to start the operating system. Sometime, the partition boot sector can get damaged due to factors, like virus infection or system reconfiguration. Therefore, the system may fail to boot & your data unaccessible. The Paragon solution to resolve it,compose a new partition boot sector. In case if it fails, using a backup or a partition recovery utility is the last option.

You can create a new partition boot sector in Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7 by using a Recovery Console command fixboot. You need to follow these steps:

Start Windows XP Console: Insert the installation CD and boot your computer
from it. Press any key to boot it from the CD. When the Setup screen appears, press the 'R' to enter the Recovery Console. The Recovery Console in Windows XP is a troubleshooting program which provides different options to resolve boot-related issues.

Command line: Select the Hard Drive Partition you want to repair and enter the administrator password (if you have & then press enter).

Use Fixboot: Type fixboot at the command prompt and Enter. This rewrites the partition boot sector for the selected Hard Drive partition. If It found any corruption in that partition boot sector preventing Windows XP from boot is removed.


Exit & Eject the CD: Once the fixboot command completes rewriting the boot sector, you have to write exit to come out from the Recovery Console and take out the CD from the drive.

Restart the computer to check, whether problem is resolve or still exists. If it is, you should restore from the last backup after reinstalling Windows. In case it is not available, you are suggested to use a Partition Recovery Software to scan the affected drive and recover the lost data. Partition Recovery utilities are simple to install and use high-end scanning algorithms to retrieve the lost or inaccessible data.