In order to meet different data storage and management requirements, Microsoft Windows users need to resize, merge or shrink the hard drive partitions without destroying your valuable data. To effectively complete this task, some third party tools are available and Partition Magic is most important among them. But in some situations, when you try to alter the partition structure of Windows partitions using Partition Magic 6.0 on Windows XP hard drive, the process may not complete successful. This behavior renders all of the hard drive partitions inaccessible and leads to partition loss. In such cases, you are required to go for Partition Recovery to recover lost partitions and get your valuable data back.
In a practical scenario, after installing Partition Magic 6.0 on a Windows XP computer when you attempt to resize, shrink or merge the hard drive partitions on an NTFS file system based partition, you might come across a number of error message. These errors indicate that the process is 100% complete. The error message sound like the followings:
- Error 983. Too many errors found, process halted.
- Error 1527: Bad update sequence number.
After these errors, Partition Magic prompts you Hit any key to reboot.. When you hit a key to restart the system, the software again attempts to perform the same operation on disk partitions and give you same error messages. In some cases, while installing Partition Magic, you might encounter following warning message:
Partition Magic 6.0 has a known compatibility issue with this version of Windows and might not run as expected. This program has difficulties with NTFS partitions. For more information, contact PowerQuest.
Due to this behavior of Partition Magic, all of your Windows XP partitions become inaccessible and need Partition Recovery to be sorted out.
Cause
This issue occurs because the Partition Magic 6.0 isn't designed for NTFS file system partitions, which is included in Microsoft Windows XP. Windows XP uses NTFS version 3.1.
Resolution
In order to recover lost hard drive partitions, you need to opt for Partition Recovery Software. These applications are specifically designed to methodically scan the affected hard drive and retrieve all of the lost, missing or inaccessible hard drive partitions.
The Partition Recovery Software may vary from file system to file system. Thus you should always go for a software that can recover NTFS file system partitions. These tools are generally easy to use and do not demand sound technical skills.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most excellent tool to handle most of the partition loss situations. It is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. This software supports recovery from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions of Windows.
