System Crash / OS Crach / C: Drive Showing Unknow Partition

What would you do if your operating system have crash suddenly, your C:\ drive where your WINDOWS is installed is showing an "Unknow Partition". All your valuable data, videos, music are at the risk. Further you might not even know whether the recovery of your data is possible or not. In such case you can do simple steps to your C:\ drive or Windows partition make good to work again as it was before.

Follow the steps:-

- Once you have come to know that the OS is crashed, try to boot it in "Safe Mode" pressing "F8" - default key
- If the system boots up in safe mode, login into your respective accounts, check for your data. After checking that restart the system, again goto "Safe Mode Page", in that select "Last know good configurations" and boot the system.
- If selecting that option your system boots up, you have over come the problem.
- If it fails to boot and keep restarting frequently, you need to "Repair" your OS with the "repair" option which comes during your Windows Installation process.
- If the system boots up and restarts from the Windows XP Start up logo giving a blue screen error , also known as "Fatal Error" \ "blue screen error of death", then please follow the below steps:-
- Take out the hard disk from your PC.
- Plug it into another computer as a "secondary hard disk"
- The moment system boots up, you will boot up with the OS of the "Primary hard disk" (and not your hard disk).
- After booting in, the system will begin a "Check Disk Process" as it has detected a problematic hard disk with damaged boot sectors, ids and etc etc.
- Let the check disk process complete the process of checking it. It will fix all the errors it detects. Let it do the job for you. You dont need to understand what is happening and how it is fixing it.....! It will take a long time though to complete the entire process, but its worth it.
- Now once the process is done, you will login with your respective accounts. You will able to access the partitions\drives, files, folders on the hard disk which was previously not functioning well - ( "Unknown Partition"). Check your data. Once you done it, shutdown the computer, remove the hard disk which you have pluged as a "secondary hard disk"
- Now again plug it back to your computer and you will be again back into action with your os working fine.

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