How to Recover Lost Data from A Windows Hard Drive Image?

In Microsoft Windows operating system, you can create image of your hard drive partition, selected region of the hard drive, or entire hard drive using third-party applications. You can use disk imaging process to create complete backup of your valuable data and prevent data loss situations. However, in some situations, the disk image created on NTFS file system drive may get damaged and it can not be accessed. In such situations, you come across severe data loss and require NTFS data recovery to work around the problem.

A hard drive image or disk image is a single file that contains all the contents of source storage media, such as hard drive, CD, DVD, USB drive, and memory card. The disk image is generally a sector-by-sector copy of your Windows hard drive or other storage media, which can be mounted like a hard drive partition and accessed. Some of the disk imaging tools may also remove unused space of the hard drive when they create image of the disk.

Under some critical circumstances, you can not access a hard drive image from NTFS file system drive. You may also come across numerous error messages at this point. Such issues are generally caused by any of the following reasons:

• Virus infection- If the virus has infected disk image or its significant data structures, then Windows can not recognize the file and access its contents. The data become inaccessible in such cases and you face severe data loss situations.

• Damaged storage media- If the storage device, on which disk image is stored, it corrupt, the file can not be accessed. You must first perform NTFS file recovery to fix the damaged storage media, before the file is actually recovered.

• File system corruption- If the file system of your disk image is corrupt, Windows can not identify it and read data from it.

In case source drive is corrupt and the disk image is also inaccessible, serious data loss issues take place. In such critical situations, NTFS partition recovery come for your help.

The NTFS data recovery applications are powerful enough to systematically scan entire hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They are totally safe and easy to use with non-destructive behavior and interactive graphical user interface.

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