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Using the DiskPatch automatic repair feature you can recover data that was
lost due to partition corruption, lost partitions, or (accidentally)
deleted partitions. This process may also be referred to as:
partition recovery
partition table recovery
partition undelete
partition repair
Corruption of the MBR, partition tables and boot sectors account
for the majority of the problems that lead to 'mass data loss';
situations where an entire drive or partition can not be accessed.
If (for known or unknown reasons) you have lost access to an
entire disk or drive while the physical disk is still detected in
the BIOS, you will often be able to regain access to your data
by making in-place repairs using DiskPatch.
Recovery of data by repairing corrupted disk structures with
DiskPatch is an easy 4 step procedure:
- Start DiskPatch and select the
physical disk; select [Select Disk] from the main menu
and select the disk from the list that is displayed
- Scan the disk with DiskPatch.
This is normally a process that takes a few minutes, less
than 20 minutes for a 160 Gb SATA disk is common (if the
scan process takes significantly longer this may be due to
disk read errors). From the [Perform repairs] menu select [Rebuild
partition tables]
- From the list of partitions
select *all* partitions that you want to have present after
the repair. Normally you will only see the partitions you
expect to be found, however in some cases more
partitions may be detected.
For each partition additional information can be displayed,
press <enter> and select [Information] from the menu.
To select a partition for repair/recovery, press
<enter> and select [Select Partition]
When you have selected all partitions press
<escape> and
select [Continue Repairs]
- DiskPatch will now completely
rebuild the partition table(s).
Verify that the recovered partitions can be
accessed after the repair. In case the partitions were NTFS
formatted you can for example use NTFS4DOS from http://www.datapol.de
(free for personal use).
If so and when applicable, you can try to boot from the hard disk.
You may need to set an active partition and/or refresh the MBR
boot loader. Both tasks can be accomplished using DiskPatch.
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