The Specification of Damaged Partition

Recovery in Minitool Data Recovery

Damaged Partition Recovery has the most powerful file recovery ability to help you

recover damaged hard drive. No matter the hard drive is reformatted or becomes

inaccessible with unknown reason.

Files could be recovered by using this data recovery module as long as the partition

exists. And also, it could give you more chance to recover lost/deleted files

whenUndelete Recovery is not working. This data recovery module not only recovers

data from hard disk partition, but also it could recover files from memory stick, memory

card and flash drive. When you focus on recovering documents and archive files from

flash drive, memory card and memory stick, this file recovery module could help you to get

your data back.

--Source from http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/damaged-partition-recovery.html

And this file recovery module not only supports MBR-style partition, but also supports

Windows Dynamic disk volume. For example: Simple Volume, Spanned Volume, Mirrored

Volume, Striped Volume and RAID-5 Volume.

How to recover data by using Damaged Partition Recovery?

a.) Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery, and click "Damaged Partition Recovery"

button.

b.) Select a partition/volume you like to recover from the partition list.

c.) Click "Open" or "Full Scan" button.

When should I use "Open" function?

a.) The partition is inaccessible in Windows. And MiniTool Power Data recovery could

identify its file system. If the partition in the list is displayed as "Unidentified", you have to

use "Full Scan" function.

b.) You like to recover files from the partition with the current file system type.

When should I use "Full Scan" function?

a.) The partition is damaged and "Open" function does not work.

b.) The partition is reformatted.

c.) You like to recover files from the partition with the previous file system type.

d.) All other data loss reasons for the partition.

If you cannot find the partition you like to recover in this data recovery module, you need

to use Lost Partition Recovery module.