Recover your damaged FAT boot sector

Generally because of virus infection and improper system shutdown, Boot file system of your Windows computer might get damaged. If that partition containing windows operating system files or it is an active primary partition, it could prevent the computer system from booting. Else, this might just prevent the access of data on the hard drive partition.

Generally when you think hard drive corruption and partition loss situations, In that case, you need to use commercial Partition Recovery tools, but if u have complete knowledge of boot sector might prove useful.

The file system boot sector of a hard disk is the first physical sector. The logical partition may be either the primary partition or a logical drive in extended partition, or It is the combination of more than one partitions. The file system boot sector is different from the MBR(Master Boot Record) and it contains a partition table that describes layout for the logical partitions on hard drive. The file system boot sector will be the first sector of every hard disk partition in Windows operating system.

How Boot Process run:-

Boot process of Windows Operating Systems directly use the file system boot sector to execute instructions. Initial boot procedure could be summarized as follows:


* Power On Self Test( POST) is initiated by CPU and BIOS.

* BIOS decide which device is used as boot device.

* BIOS loads first sector from boot device in memory and then transfers CPU execution to start of memory address.

MBR code loads boot sector referenced by partition table for active primary partition in memory and then transfers CPU execution to the beginning.

Up to this point, boot process is complete independent of what OS is being loaded and how disk is formatted. From here, file systems & operating system play a part.

When you think that the FAT boot sector is damaged, you could check whether the values in the fields is correct. You can see error massage there and can change as per the situation. But in some-case if you unable to resolve the problem with general troubleshooting, it become essential to go for Partition Recovery Software.

These are n-numbers of powerful and advanced third party applications, which allow you to carry out smooth Partition Recovery in most of the cases. High scanning algorithms are use by these Partition Recovery Software to achieve exact and successful complete recovery.

Partition Recovery Software is the most effective and powerful application to handle all sorts of partition loss situations. It recovers FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This easy to use application is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.