Note: If your partition errors can not be resolved, we recommend you to use professional data recovery software, such as Data Recovery Wizard to recover files from those lost or damaged partitions.

Frequent FAT32, NTFS Partition Error Repair

SYMPTOMS:
When we try to boot after hardware testing procedures, we'll see just blank screen without any messages.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, it can automatically check and repair partition table error.

SYMPTOMS:
Not found any Active Partition in hard drive.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, and it will report some messages as follows:
ERROR: No Active Primary partition on Harddisk1.
Do you want set Active primary partition on Harddisk1?
Please click 'Yes' button to solve this problem.

SYMPTOMS:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, and it will report some messages as follows:
ERROR: No Active Primary partition on Harddisk1.
Do you want set Active primary partition on Harddisk1?
Please click 'Yes' button to solve this problem.

SYMPTOMS:
Invalid partition table.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, and it will report some messages as follows:
ERROR: Invalid Boot Indicator of primary partitions on Harddisk1.
Do you want correct the error?
Please click 'Yes' button to solve this problem.

SYMPTOMS:
Missing operating system.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, and it will report some messages as follows:
ERROR: Partition 1 on Harddisk1 Absolute start sector is 16191.
The right start sector is 63.
Do you want correct the error?
Please click 'Yes' button to solve this problem.

SYMPTOMS:
Boot infection or Boot virus.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, and choose 'Rebuild MBR' function on 'Operations' menu. More details see 'Rebuild MBR'.

SYMPTOMS:
Invalid Drive Specification messages. We want to find my lost partition.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, and choose 'Rebuild Partition Table' function on 'Operations' menu.

SYMPTOMS:
- 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.

Solution:
Please run Partition Table Doctor, and choose 'Fixboot' function on 'Operations' menu. More detail sees 'Fixboot'.

See: Hard Disk Data Security and Protection

Features

Notes

• Notes for Using And Running
• Step-by-Step Instructions
• How to Create Emergency Floppy Disk or Bootable CD of Partition Table Doctor
• Frequent Partition Error
• How to Recover Lost Partitions From External Hard Disk Drive By Partition Table Doctor
• How to recover accidentally deleted partition
• About Partition Table
• Liability / Warranty

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