Notes for Using and Running

Partition Table Doctor is the only real software for hard disk partitions recovery. When you come up against a drive error (not hardware failure) this versatile tool would automatically check and repair 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 hard disk drives. Partition Table Doctor manages for MS-DOS, Freedos, 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 hard disk drive was damaged, Partition Table Doctor will ask you to rebuild partition table for partition recovery on the hard disk 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 information about partition recovery see '.

The partitions circumstantialities will be displayed in the form of chart and tables. The cylinder diagram on the top displays all allocated partitions' positions. The type and other detailed parameters of partitions are listed in a table in 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 to select.

In order to prevent mistakes, all operations except Restore sectors from file, Copy sectors, Fill sectors are not written to hard disk immediately. They are saved in memory buffer instead. When it comes to the end and there is no error, you can select 'Save' on menu 'General'. Then Partition Table Doctor will write all your operations to hard disk one-off. On Windows, Partition Table Doctor provides 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.

See:
Backup partition table
Rebuild partition table
Fix boot sector

If you want to recover files due to deletion, format, partition lost or damage, system crash, etc. especially under Windows Vista/2008/Windows 7, our free data recovery software - Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is recommended. It works well with hardware RAID and hard drives, SD and Memory Cards, etc.

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Notes

• Notes for Using And Running
• Frequent Partition Error
• About Partition Table
• Liability / Warranty