Which Software to Use? Active@ Partition Recovery for DOS or for Windows?

• System Partition is lost (C: in most cases)
• Machine does NOT boot in Windows
• No chance to attach damaged HDD to another machine bootable in Windows
• You are familiar with DOS environment

• Non-System Partition is lost (D:, E:, F: ... in most cases)
• Machine boots in Windows properly
• You can plug out and attach damaged HDD to another machine that boots in Windows
• Deleted partition is located on USB drive or Memory Card (SunDisk, MemoryStick, CompactFlash)
• You are NOT familiar with DOS environment

Active@ Partition Recovery for DOS

Active@ Partition Recovery for Windows

1. Download archive containing Free Demo Software, License and User's Manual
2. Download Active@ Partition Recovery DOS Executable (PR.EXE)
3. Download Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for Active@ Partition Recovery
4. Download Bootable ISO Image of Active@ Partition Recovery
   What are ISO image files and how do I use them?
5. Download USER MANUAL in PDF format (218 KB)
6. Download Previously Purchased Software

1. Download Windows Installer containing Free Demo Software, License and Help
2. Download Active@ Partition Recovery Windows Executable (PartRecovery.EXE)
3. Download Help in CHM format (426 KB)

Active@ Partition Recovery Enterprise Toolkit

Active@ Partition Recovery Professional

• Includes both DOS and Windows versions in one package
• Includes Bootable Windows CD-ROM ISO image
• Non-System and System paritions can be recovered from both DOS and Windows environment
• Includes Active@ File Recovery utility for saving particular files and folders

• Includes both DOS and Windows versions in one package
• Non-System paritions can be recovered from both DOS and Windows environment
• System paritions can be recovered from DOS environment

Booting DOS from Floppy Disk for Free version

1. Insert a bootable floppy disk in your diskette drive.
2. Click here to start download.
3. When download window appears, save executable file to the floppy disk.

or  use 1 step Bootable Floppy Creation

Download and run Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for Active@ Partition Recovery

Booting DOS from Floppy Disk for Purchased version

1. Download and run Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for Active@ Partition Recovery
2. Overwrite pr.exe file on the bootable floppy with your Professional version pr.exe file.

Bootable CD Image for Free version

Download Bootable ISO Image of Active@ Partition Recovery to burn CD. This downloads an ISO IMAGE (not a regular file) that needs to be burned to the CD AS AN IMAGE (not as an added file).
 

Bootable CD Image for Purchased version

The registered version of Partition Recovery comes with bootable CD support. Here are the steps to create the bootable CD.

1. Create a folder on you hard drive called PR.
2. Download Bootable ISO Image of Active@ Partition Recovery for DOS to burn CD.
3. After ordering the product, you would have received the file PR-SETUP.EXE. Copy/move (or if necessary re-download) your file (the one from the link you received after purchasing the software) to this folder.
4. You should have a folder called PR, with a file PR-SETUP.EXE in it. This file is a self extracting executable. Double click on this file. It will extract files into the PR folder.
5. You will now have a folder containing PR-setup.exe and some other files. Look for the file PR.ISO, that is what needs to be burned to the CD. (Not any of the other files.) The included PR.ISO file is a special CD image file that should be burned to a CD-R or CD-RW.

For more information on recording an ISO image to CD see the following web page: How can I write ISO files to CD or DVD?