Partition Table Doctor, Copyright (C) 2002-2003 by PTDD Group *** Short View *** Partition Table Doctor( PTD ) is a powerful recovery tool for your harddisk partition tables, it automatically checks and repairs partition table error. Partition Table Doctor provides very useful functions: such as backup partition table, restore partition table, rebuild partition table. So much as, it permits you to configure every parameter of the partition table. In addition, Partition Table Doctor provides some other useful functions: check partition, active partition, hide partition, scandisk, rebuild MBR(Master Boot Record), set password for harddisk, unlock harddisk, view sectors, edit sectors, backup sectors to file, restore file to sectors, copy sectors, fill sectors, and so on. *** Notes for Using And Running *** You"d better run Partition Table Doctor under pure MS DOS environment, because partition operations are independent of operating systems and very "low level", some function such as fill sectors only run under pure MS DOS environment. Of course, you can run Partition Table Doctor under the MS DOS prompted window in WINDOWS 9x or WINDOWS ME. To execute Partition Table Doctor, just type "ptd" at MS DOS command prompt or double hit ptd.exe using mouse in the path of Partition Table Doctor. Also you can use mouse to choose "Create Emergency Disk" from "General" menu to run ptd under pure MS DOS environment. When restore partition table to harddisk, the master boot sector will be overwrote. So you should "Disable" the "Anti Virus" option in BIOS setup. When running, the partitions circumstantiality will be displayed using chart and tables. The cylinder diagram in the top displays all allocated partitions' position and size. The type and other detail parameters of partitions are listed in a table on the middle of screen. About the meanings of these parameters, please refer to "About Partition Table" of Help files. Before operating on a partition you must select it first. To select a partition, just click on the partition in the diagram or in the table use mouse. And also you can use Up or Down key for selecting. In order to prevent mistakes, all operations except restore file to sectors, copy sectors, fill sectors are not wrote to harddisk immediately. They are saved in memory buffer instead. While complete and there are no errors, you can send out a "apply" command use CtrL+S key or select "Save" from menu "General". Then Partition Table Doctor write all your operations to harddisk one-off. *** ENCLOSED FILES *** The Partition Table Doctor will be given in a packed ZIP-file (Ptddemo.zip). This file enclosed the following files. Ptd.exe Program Ptd.hlp Help file for Program under Dos Ptd.bin Ptd binary files Ctmouse.exe Mouse Driver for Pure Dos Environment Pcopy.bat Create Emergency Disk under Windows NT/2000/XP, run pcopy.bat to copy freedos kernel files. Win98/Dos622 Examples for config.sys and autoexec.bat files ReadMe.txt Brief description of this program Order.txt Order form for orders via mail *** Order *** You can order the shareware version of this program by using the; online shop on the Internet. O R D E R : Licence(s) Partition Table Doctor each US$ 35.00 All other ordering details and prices can be found on the order.txt Updates of the shareware version may be downloaded from the Internet whenever they become available. Currently, all updates are free! Partition Table Doctor, Copyright (C) 2002-2003 by PTDD Group *** Copyright *** Internet: http://www.ptdd.com/ Windows is a registered trademark owned by Microsoft Corporation. All other mentioned trademarks can be registered trademarks of their respective owners. Distribution of materials of this Help both in original and/or edited form in published form (book) is forbidden unless a special written permission from the author is obtained.THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED IS THERE ARE NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED OBLIGATIONS, CONFIRMATIONS OR WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THOSE RELATED TO SOFTWARE MARKETABILITY AND SUITABILITY FOR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES, TO THE DEGREE OF SUCH LIMITED LIABILITY APPLICABLE BY LAW. This program is delivered together with a limited version of FreeDOS. To be exact, it is possible to create a boot disk using this program together with FreeDOS. This program does not use any function or functionality of FreeDOS. The copyright of this program has no connection with the copyright of FreeDOS. The rights of use of this program have no connection with the rights of use of FreeDOS. FreeDOS is a completely independent and different program and is subject to the general rights of use and the General Public Licenses(GPL). Source code to FreeDOS is available: either write to us for a copy of the kernel source code that we used, or visit http://www.freedos.org/ to download the latest version of FreeDOS! *** Liability / Warranty *** If this program is used improperly, it may result in the irretrievable destruction of all data on your harddisk! It is thus absolutely necessary to create a backup before using the Partition Table Doctor. According to the ruling by the district court Konstanz 1 S 292/95 from May 10 1997, daily data backup is reasonable and can be expected! Thus, any responsibility or liability for any losses or damages is not accepted! UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES! The software can be evaluated before the actual purchase. The software is provided as is without warranty of any kind. Any rights for modifications or follow-up corrections do not exist. Should you find any errors, please let our support staff know and we will try to correct the error within a few days. Any bug notifications will be rewarded with a free registration key! The Partition Table Doctor is delivered together with a limited version of FreeDOS. FreeDOS is a completely independent and different program. FreeDOS is freeware and does not grant any warranty claims. More about FreeDOS on the Internet at: http://www.freedos.org/ Partition Table Doctor, Copyright (C) 2002-2003 by PTDD Group.