As the most commonly used operating system all over the world, Windows XP is the main object attacked by viruses. Although Microsoft has kept providing all kinds of Windows XP patches, many Windows XP operating systems are still suffering virus attacks. Viruses influence not only data, but also partition. It may make partition lost. Therefore, both data recovery software and partition recovery program are necessary. As partition recovery program specially designed for Windows users, MiniTool Partition Recovery has helped many users recover lost partition successfully.

Scanning appointed sector in hard disk with MiniTool Partition Recovery
To recover lost partition with MiniTool Partition Recovery, finding the lost partition should be done firstly. And this partition recovery program provides three scanning ranges.



"Full Disk", "Unallocated Space" and "Specified Range" are provided. As to the first two ranges, most users can understand them. They are designed for scanning the whole disk and the unallocated space in hard disk respectively. But "Specified Range" is difficult to grasp for many users. Usually, we select the partition that will be scanned via graphs listed in the window. Only single partition can be selected in this situation, for example, selecting Partition C: or unallocated partition or other single partition. If multiple partitions need scanning at the same time, we have to input "Starting LBA" and "Ending LBA" value to appoint area that will be scanned by this partition recovery program. Since many users have no idea about LBA, we have to know some LBA knowledge so as to use the partition recovery program MiniTool Partition Recovery well.

LBA
Before talking about LBA, we should know something about C/H/S. C/H/S is a three-dimensional address recording sectors. Among them, C stands for cylinder, H heads, and S sector. We can identify sector location in hard disk through these three parameters. But the maximum C/H/S value is 1024/16/63 and the maximum partition capacity is 504MB. Moreover, it is difficult to record C/H/S and the efficiency is very low, so LBA is adopted. LBA, short for "Logical Block address", is relative to three-dimensional physical address of sector. It is not limited by hardware parameters like cylinders and heads and its efficiency is higher than C/H/S efficiency. It can be considered as serial number of every sector in hard disk.

After understanding LBA, we can set starting LBA and ending LBA to identify the area that will be scanned by the partition recovery software. To scan multiple partitions, we can click the first partition to record starting LBA and the last partition to record ending LBA, and then input the specific value in the text box of "Starting LBA" and "Ending LBA".

For all Windows XP operating system users, MiniTool Partition Recovery is a rare partition recovery program. There are many important factors we should pay attention to in practical operation. More detailed information can be got on the official website http://www.minitool-partitionrecovery.com.

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