DIY DataRecovery today announced its popular "DiskPatch Standard" utility will be renamed to "DiskPatch Partition Repair".

The new name for the software better describes what DiskPatch Partition Rapair is most commonly used for; repair of corrupt partition table structures and recovery of data that was lost due to lost, deleted and corrupt partitions.

The DiskPatch Standard version has to compete with other popular titles like "Active@Partition Repair" and "Partition Table Doctor", but its name made it less obvious that DiskPatch Standard was designed to solve partition table problems.

DiskPatch Partition Repair is a highly advanced utility designed to repair structures that describe the hard disk layout: partition tables and boot sectors. Most data recovery tools offered on the internet recover data by copying it to another drive. DiskPatch Partition Repair uses a different approach and tries to correct corrupt structures on the disk itself, allowing you to access your data again.

To make recovery from future disasters even easier, DiskPatch allows you to back up important disk structures like the MBR, partition tables and boot sectors and even the LDM on Windows 2000/XP dynamic disks.

The bottom line: If you lost access to an entire disk or drive while the physical disk is still detected in the BIOS, you will often be able to regain access to your data by making in-place repairs using DiskPatch Partition Repair. Since it's introduction, thousands of people have used DiskPatch Partition Repair to successfully recover tera-bytes of data.