Knowledge about Recovering Damaged or Corrupt Partition

Do you still repent for not backing up the lost partition before, and no way comes to your side?

Here I will introduce how to recover damaged or corrupt partition, before recovering damaged and corrupt partition we should know something knowledge such as partition and partition recovery, etc.

What is a Partition? A hard disk partition is a defined storage space on a hard drive. Most operating systems allow users to divide a hard disk into multiple partitions, in effect making one physical hard disk into several smaller logical hard disks. A partition contains primary partition, extended partition, and the extended partition contains logical drive.

Primary Partition is used to start an operating system, although you can use primary partitions that don't contain the operating system. Look at picture and you'll see that Primary partitions are denoted by the dark blue color. Extended Partition can be sub-divided into logical drives. Look at the picture and you'll see that extended partitions are denoted by the dark green color. Logical Drive is created within an extended partition. Look at the picture and you'll see that Logical drives are denoted by the lighter bright blue color. More Logical drives could be created in the Free Space until you either ran out of drive letters or the Free Space was exhausted.

Besides partition, we should also know Partition Table and MBR to Recover Damaged and Corrupt Partition

Partition table is located at the first sector (cylinder 0, head 0 and sector 1) of each hard disk. It memorizes information about sizes and locations of partitions on hard disk. The partition information is started on offset 1BEH of master boot sector. Each partition entry is 16 bytes long. The total partition table is 64 bytes long. Then partition table is limited to a maximum of 4 entries. That is, there is a maximum of 4 partitions, which is called primary partition and can be created on hard disk. When you run partition recovery, it's important

MBR is short for Master Boot Record, a small program that is executed when a computer boots up. The program begins the boot process by looking up the partition table to determine which partition to use for booting. It then transfers program control to the boot sector of that partition, which continues the boot process. Before you recover damaged or corrupt partition, MBR should be in normal.

In most situation of recover damaged or corrupt partition, we should recover MBR first then we can run partition recovery, and now a partition recovery software is needed. EaseUS Partition Table Doctor is our first choice.

EaseUS Partition Table Doctor is partition recovery software for hard disk partition recovery and repair. It is designed to recover the deleted, damaged, lost or corrupted partitions on hard drive, backup and restore, repair partition table, MBR, boot sectors, etc. Partition Table Doctor runs under MS-DOS, and Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.

Once you run EaseUS Partition Table Doctor to recover damaged or corrupt partition, it will automatically check and repair partition table or boot sector of the lost or corrupted partition for partition recovery. You can follow these steps to recover damaged or corrupt partition:

1. Rebuild Partition Table can recover damaged or corrupt partition for you.

2. EaseUS Partition Table Doctor will ask you to choose partition recovery from "Auto" or "Interactive".Auto mode will automatically save found partition. If not, you should choose Interactive mode.

3. If you find the right partition, Click "Yes" to rebuild partition table and "No" will back to the last step to search repeatedly until the partitions which you need have been found.

Before you exit and reboot you computer after partition recovery, you should save all operations, and you will find you can recover damaged or corrupt partition.

Partition recovery is one of the functions of EaseUS Partition Table Doctor, if you are suffering different problems about partition recovery, click here for more information.

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