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Contents > Overview
Chapter 1. OVERVIEW.
This chapter gives an overview of Active@ Partition Recovery application.
Active@ Partition Recovery is a very small, powerful and easy-to-use
DOS program that can help you to:
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Recover deleted partitions (FAT and NTFS)
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Restore deleted FAT and NTFS Logical Drives
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Scan hard drives and detect deleted FAT and NTFS partitions or Logical Drives
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Preview files and folders on deleted partition or drive, to recover data
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Backup the Master Boot Record (MBR), Partition Table, Volume Boot Sectors
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Restore the MBR, Partition Table and Volume Boot Sectors from backup if damaged
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Create a drive image
It will help you when:
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Drives or partitions inadvertently deleted (using FDISK or other programs)
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Hard Disk Logical Structure has been corrupted
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Boot sector is damaged by virus
1.2. What's New
in Version 2.1.
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Perform Extended Disk Scan in Interactive DOS mode to ignore Master Boot Record
and scan drive contents.
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Easily create a "test" file using command line parameters. Send the
test file to Active Data Recovery Software technicians for analysis if you
encounter a drive that is difficult to restore.
1.3. Personal
Computer Requirements.
Active@ Partition Recovery requires:
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AT compatible CPU with 286 or greater processor
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640Kb of RAM
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1.44 Mb floppy diskette drive
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EGA 640x480 or better screen resolution
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Bootable Floppy disk containing MS-DOS 6.0+, or startup disk for Windows 95/98
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HDD of type IDE/ATA/SCSI attached to be recovered
The performance of Active@
Partition Recovery depends on the version of the application, as
displayed in the table below:
Table 1-1 Differences Between Demo and Registered Versions
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Feature
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Demo version
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Commercial
version
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Can be saved and run from bootable floppy |
Yes |
Yes |
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Displays complete physical and logical drive information |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives
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Yes |
Yes |
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Supports large (more than 8GB) size drives
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Yes |
Yes |
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Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supports MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP partitions
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Yes |
Yes |
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Detects deleted primary and extended partitions and drives
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Yes |
Yes |
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Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR
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Yes |
Yes |
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Assesses ability to recover files and folders |
Yes |
Yes |
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Previews files and folders before recovery |
Yes |
Yes |
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Displays long file names
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Yes |
Yes |
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Creates Disk Image as set of 1GB files
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Yes |
Yes |
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Creates backup for MBR, Partition Table, Boot Sectors |
Yes |
Yes |
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Restores MBR, Partition Table and Boot Sectors from backup |
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Yes |
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Saves detected partition information back to HDD
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Yes |
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