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Contents > Overview
Partition Recovery
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:
- Recover deleted partitions (FAT and NTFS)
- Restore deleted FAT and NTFS Logical Drives
- Scan hard drives and detect deleted FAT and NTFS partitions or
Logical Drives
- Preview files and folders on deleted partition or drive, to recover
data
- Backup the Master Boot Record (MBR), Partition Table, Volume Boot
Sectors
- Restore the MBR, Partition Table and Volume Boot Sectors from backup
if damaged
- Create a drive image
It will help you when:
- Drives or partitions inadvertently deleted (using FDISK or other
programs)
- Hard Disk Logical Structure has been corrupted
- Boot sector is damaged by virus
1.2. Personal
Computer Requirements.
Active@ Partition Recovery requires:
- AT compatible CPU with 286 or greater processor
- 640Kb of RAM
- 1.44 Mb floppy diskette drive
- EGA 640x480 or better screen resolution
- Bootable Floppy disk containing MS-DOS 6.0+, or startup disk for Windows
95/98
- 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
|
Feature
|
Demo version |
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 |
|
Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supports large (more than 8GB) size drives |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Supports MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP partitions/Server
2003 (as well as x64 editions)/Windows7 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Detects deleted primary and extended partitions and drives |
Yes |
Yes |
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Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR |
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 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Creates Disk Image as set of 1GB files |
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 |
- |
Yes |
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Saves detected partition information back to HDD |
- |
Yes |
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