A tool to view, quick search, and open volumes, as well as to perform basic operations on partitions on MBR- and GPT-style disks. Other styles (e.g., hybrid, dynamic) are unsupported whilst partitions may be shown as found.
Warning! Any disk modifications may cause further data loss (read more)
To enable modifications the option Advanced must be turned on. All changes remain virtual until you apply them using the button Apply or the context menu command Apply Partitioning. Write operations must be confirmed or enabled through the option Allow Write in the device parameters. See also the section Manage Changes.
Partition management supports modifications that change only partition tables and boot sectors without touching partitions contents. These include partition removal and undeleting, restoration of a boot sector from its copy, and other basic operations.
The checkbox "found" is to display lost and removed partitions (an express search is performed). For a complex and deeper search there is Full Scan option.
To prevent the default express search uncheck the box Show partitions when open a device or construct a RAID.
When volume is opened from the Full Scan results it is also added to the list of found partitions and can be restored (inserted) if not corrupted.
Other info mode checkboxes:
(A) - bootable (active) partition status (Partition column).
Indicators indicate the presence of structures:
Found errors are colored in red. For incorrect/non-standard partitioning correct displaying is not guaranteed. Some partitioning errors can be fixed by removing and inserting back the partitions. Prior to DMDE 3.8 FAT basic FS structures (F indicator) were being tested only on opening a volume.
The Menu button displays the operations available on the selected partition or the entire disk.
Open the selected volume to view and recover files.
View and manually edit volume parameters before opening the volume.
Display volume letters currently assigned to partitions by OS.
Run Full Scan or load full scan results from a file.
Call the dialog box Copy Sectors to create partition image or clone the partition.
Insert lost or removed volume into the partition table. Invalid partitions may prevent insertion so they must be removed before insertion. Completely damaged partitioning can be resetted using the command Toggle MBR Signature On/Off applied to the topmost item. You should add partitions from the beginning to the end of the disk.
Remove the existing partition or a partition table.
Create unformatted (RAW) partition within the unallocated space. If there are no partitioning errors it is highly recommended to use only standard system tools for creating and removing partitions.
Replace damaged boot sector with a backup copy.
Set or reset active (A) status of a bootable partition.
Set or reset boot sector signature (0xAA55).
Reset boot sector signature (0xAA55) and signatures of GPT tables (EFI PART).
Set GPT and boot signatures. Available only on GPT disks after resetting.
Make DOS bootable disk.
Undo the last action.
Redo the last undone action.
Undo all partitioing changes.
Reset all unapplied changes.
Load disk partitioning or rollback data from a file. See Changes for details.
Save current partitioning to a file for a backup purposes. Available only if the device is partitioned and there are no unapplied changes.
Write changes to the disk. See Applying Changes for details.