Partition Recovery and Repair software - Partition Table Doctor

What can you do when you want to recover partitions on your hard disk drive due to accidental deletion? Your partitions also may be invisible due to unknown reasons, say, virus infection or may not be opened if there is something wrong with the boot sectors. All these problems can be settled with a magic partition recovery and repair software - EASEUS Partition Table Doctor. This article will mainly tells you how to recovery or repair your partition with Partition Table Doctor.

And please be noted that Do Not Forget to Backup Your Partition or Disk after repairing your partition! Get Started with free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup.

Partition Recovery

As motioned above, if you accidentally deleted your partition or lost it, all the files on the partition can not be accessed. Then, how to judge whether the partition is lost or not? The way is quite simple. Just clicking "My Computer" and if you can not see the partition and the size of whole hard disk unchanged, then your partition is lost.

However, even if you did not back up you files, there are chances to get your files back by partition recovery. Partition Table Doctor is a best partition recovery and repair software for computer users to recover the deleted, damaged or corrupted partitions on hard drive (both internal and external).

How to recover partitions with Partition Table Doctor?

Being designed to be user friendly, Partition Table Doctor is ease to use. Users need not to have in-depth knowledge to do partition recovery. For the software provides partition table backup functions, so you have two ways to recover partitions if you have previously backed up the partition table with Partition Table Doctor as following.

First, if you have back up partition table before, you can use the Restore Partition Table function to recover the partitions you needed. To recover partitions just from a backup file, press "F2" key or select "Restore Partition Table" from "Operations" menu or click "Operations" > "Restore Partition Table" .

Then enter the file name or choose the backup files for restoring to the hard disk. Clisk "Disk". Then your partition will be successfully recovered. (If you are not sure about your backup file, we recommend you choose "VirtualDisk" choice, this choice uses memory instead.)

Second, if you did not back up your partition table, you should choose "Rebuild Partition Table" for partition recovery. It will search your lost or damaged partition and recover it. The function item is located under the "Operations" menu or click "F3" key. Searching lost or damaged partition is able to run with "Auto" mode or "Interactive" mode.

The Auto mode will automatically save every partition found without process control within search processing. You need not to do any operations and partition recovery will be finished.

The Interactive mode allows you to select each partition found in Partition Table Doctor manually. When rebuilding the partition table in Auto mode and errors occurring switch to the Interactive mode. Searched partitions will be displayed on screen in time sequence within search processing. During the Interactive mode, before choosing these detected partitions, Browse option will provide you a preview of the folders and files in the root directory on this partition for a more intuitional adjustment on it.

After finding your lost or damaged partition, press "Next" and "Save" your operations. Then Partition recovery is successfully done.

Partition Table Doctor is safe to recover the partitions for it is only to recover your partitions through modifying partition table or boot sector, which means the software will never attempt to write to data area of the drive you are want to recover. Please make sure to read the Step-by-Step Instructions.

Partition Repair

When the partitions are failed to access, there would be something wrong with the boot sectors. You need to repair the partitions. The function "Fixboot" of Partition Table Doctor is for repair the boot problems of partition.

When to repair the partition?

The first sector of partition is also known as the Boot Sector. If you can not open the partition normally or has the symptoms such as mentioned as below, then the partition should be repaired.

• invalid media type reading drive. Abort, Retry, Fail?
• File system is displayed as "RAW"
• Windows may ask if you want to format the drive
• File names contain "weird" characters
• "Sector not found" messages

If the Boot Sector of a FAT16/FAT32/NTFS partition was corrupt, it will be marked with "X" by Partition Table Doctor.

How to repair the partition with Partition Table Doctor?

There are two situations for partition repair according to your File System:

First, if you cannot access the FAT16/NTFS partition and the partition was marked with "X", right click the partition and choose "Fixboot". Then it will automatically check and repair the Boot Sector of the partition.

Just by simple clicking, the partitions that can not be accessed will be successfully repaired.

Second, if Your FAT32 partition is needed to repair, right click the partition and choose Fixboot. There are two choice:

One is "Auto" mode: Partition Table Doctor will automatically check and repair the Boot Sector of the partition. We recommend you choose this mode.

The other is "Interactive" mode. If "Auto" mode doesn’t work, you could choose "Interactive" mode. You must input the Label for the partition or file name (the file is in the Root Folder). If you do not know what file name to input, follow the file name that is suggested:

Bootable partition:
io.sys, msdos.sys, ntldr, bootlog.txt

Other partitions:
_restore, recycled

File name can not support long name or wildcard character by DOS version of Partition Table Doctor.

Besides partition recovery and repair, Partition Table Doctor also provides other advanced features, for example, rebuild MBR (Master Boot Record) which was used to recover the MBR when your computer failed to boot, Edit Properties to configure partition table, Checking bad sectors, Hide partition, Active partition, Copy sectors, etc. It works with FAT16/FAT32/NTFS/NTFS5/EXT2/EXT3/SWAP file systems and supports Dos, Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

You can download a demo here to experience its function with the limitation of not keeping the changes you do. Cost only $49.95 you can enjoy this powerful partition recovery and repair software.

To keep far away from this kind of disaster, we recommend you to backup your disk and data at any time. EASEUS Todo Backup, comprehensive free backup software will help you backup and restore disk or partition within a few minutes.

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