Disk Patch description
DOS based data recovery, hard disk repair and disk cloning

DiskPatch is a menu driven DOS application designed to help you solve a wide range of harddisk problems.

Mass data loss, a situation where access to an entire disk or partition is lost, is often caused by damage to meta structures such as the MBR, Partition Tables, LDM, or the Boot Sector of an individual partition.

By repairing those structures with DiskPatch, data can be made accessible again.

Another common cause for data loss is unreadable sectors; while a few read errors may only have minor consequences and only prevent access to one or more files, large blocks of unreadable sectors can prevent access to individual volumes or even entire disks.

In that case you can use DiskPatch to clone a hard disk (even when conventional cloning tools fail due to bad sectors or file system errors), scan the disk surface for read- and write errors and possibly fix bad sectors.

Once a backup exists, damage to any of the previously mentioned disk structures can be easily fixed by restoring the backup.

Here are some key features of "Disk Patch":

· MBR Repair and Rebuild
· Partition Recovery
· Partition Table Repair
· Automatic Boot Sector Repair and Rebuild
· MBR, Partition Table & LDM Backup
· Disk and Sector Editor
· Basic Partition Table Management
· Undo
· Disk Surface Testing
· Disk Cloning (good disks and bad disks)
· Disk Wipe (low level format)


Requirements:

· 1.44 Mb diskette drive or
· CD boot capability


Limitations:

· determines only if the program can fully or partially recover your data