P-List and Data Recovery

Can someone point me to a post or article that talks about how the P-List is used in data recovery? Either theory or actual use of tools (pc3000 or mhdd, etc.) is fine.

Thanks in advance!

pc3k or mhdd can not be used for data recovery.they used to repair bad sectors of hdd.adding bad sectors into G-list or p-list.

qqt88 wrote:pc3k or mhdd can not be used for data recovery.they used to repair bad sectors of hdd.adding bad sectors into G-list or p-list.

Thanks qqt88... so this would be a situation where the drive is not recognized by bios due to bad sectors, and after they bads are "manually" added to the g/p list, you can then view contents and recover data? Is that line of thinking correct?

Or, is it just to repair the hard drive so you can use it again?

Im obviously not too smart when it comes to g/p list, anyone know where i can get documents on the function of them and how to manipulate them?