Recovery of Partition

2.Recovery of Partition
The partition recovery is generally the second step of the whole process. Because apart from some
tools that directly reads and writes hard disk, most of tool software runs under operation system,
working with the system calling. While operation system’s visiting disk is on the basis of MBR
and DBR; without MBR and DBR, operation system is unable to visit file system. Therefore, if
the partition table is corrupted, we need rebuild partition table, which is usually fulfilled manually;
in some special cases it can be done automatically by some working software.
If partition table is corrupted, there are many tools to rebuild it automatically, if only the problem
is not too serious. If it is too serious, or the partition table structure is too complex, it may possibly
be out of the reach of their ability to rebuild. In this case, we need do it manually. Usually we use
some tool software to recover the lost partition table, such as Norton Utilities 8.0, DiskMan,
KV3000/Kavfix 和PartitionMagic etc. Here we introduce Partition Table Doctor.
3.Partition Table Doctor
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. It can create an emergency floppy disk or a bootable CD to recover the bad
partition even if your operation system fails to boot. Partition Table Doctor manages for MS-DOS,
Freedos, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
There are two modes for partition recovery: “auto mode” and “interactive mode”.