Notes for Using And Running

Partition Table Doctor is the only real software for Harddisk partitions recovery when you experience a drive error (other than hardware failure). This versatile tool automatically checks and repairs the Master Boot Record, partition table, and the boot sector of the partition with an error, to recover the FAT16/FAT32/NTFS/NTFS5/EXT2/EXT3/SWAP partition on IDE/ATA/SATA/SCSI Harddisk drives. Partition Table Doctor manages under MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.

Besides starting Partition Table Doctor from the Windows Start menu, you can also start it from inside Windows Explorer or My Computer. It can create an emergency floppy disk or a bootable CD to recover the bad partition even if your operating system fails to boot.
When running, Partition Table Doctor will automatically check the Master Boot Record, partition table, and the boot sector of the partition. If the partition table on the Harddisk drive is damaged, Partition Table Doctor will ask you to Rebuild Partition Table for partition recovery on the Harddisk drive. If the boot sector of one partition was damaged, the partition will be marked "X";? you can right click the partition and choose "fixboot" to fix the boot sector of the partition. More partition recovery information sees "How to Recover Lost Partition" of the help file.

The partitions circumstantialities will be displayed using chart and tables. The cylinder diagram in the top displays all allocated partitions' position. The type and other detail parameters of partitions are listed in a table on the middle of screen. About the meanings of these parameters, please refer to "About Partition Table" Before operating on a partition you must select it first. To select a partition, just click on the partition in the diagram or in the table. And also you can use Up or Down key for selecting.

In order to prevent mistakes, all operations except Restore sectors from file, Copy sectors, Fill Sectors are not wrote to Harddisk immediately. They are saved in memory buffer instead. While complete and there are no errors, you can select Save from menu General. Then Partition Table Doctor writes all your operations to Harddisk one-off. On Windows, Partition Table Doctor gives you the option of Undo Changes. In the unlikely event you need to reverse the changes made by Partition Table Doctor, you can use the undo file to return your disk to the state it was in prior to the repairs.

More details see Recovery Lost partition's Guide.
Backup Partition Table
Restore Partition Table
Rebuild Partition Table