You can install two or more operating system on a single computer. The system, which is configured in this way, is called Dual-boot or Multi-boot system. There are some situations, where you might need to use Windows Vista with Windows XP in dual-boot fashion. This configuration is generally used by the system testers or the users who want to take benefit of better performance and high compatibility.
To make a system dual boot, you should have a second partition or will have to format the hard drive. Although, this configuration is very helpful, but in some cases it might cause problems and may lead to partition loss. Such cases require Partition Recovery to be resolved. Microsoft Windows Vista employs a diverse partitioning scheme as used by Microsoft Windows XP. When you install Windows Vista on a computer and create disk partitions for it, an alignment boundary is created by the Logical Disk Manager.
Typically the size of this boundary is approximately 1 MB. Microsoft Windows XP disk partitioning scheme also creates such type of boundary. In some situations, you may face partition loss issues due to difference in these alignment boundaries. Because of the different alignment boundaries and partition schemes of Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, when you attempt to create a new hard drive partition using Windows XP, the Vista hosted partitions can not be seen. In such situations, the Vista partitions disappear and you can not access them.
This behavior results into critical partition and data loss situations. You are recommended not to use Microsoft Windows XP to create a new hard drive partitions on the computer that has Windows Vista installed. However, the lost hard drive partitions must be recovered to get your valuable data back. It is potential through Partition Recovery process. This is the method of scanning physical hard drive and retrieving all of the missing, lost and inaccessible Windows partitions. This is best possible with the help of third party Partition Recovery Software.
These are advanced and effective third party utilities, which use efficient scanning mechanisms to methodically scan whole hard drive and salvage all of the lost partitions. With interactive graphical user interface and non destructive design, these software performs safe and trouble free recovery. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive tool to ensure absolute recovery of lost partitions. This Partition Recovery Software recovers FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
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