Requirements

This section outlines the minimum requirements for PCs using Active@ Partition Recovery.

Personal Computer

  • IBM PC/AT compatible CPU
  • Video must be VGA or better resolution (800 x 600)
  • Intel 286 or higher for DOS version
  • 640 KB of RAM for DOS version
  • Intel Pentium processor or higher for Windows version
  • 128 MB of RAM for Windows version

Drive Storage System

  • CD/DVD/Blu-ray or USB storage device to boot from (in case of unbootable systems)
  • Hard Disk Drive type SATA, eSATA, External USB, SSD, NVMe, SAS or SCSI with controllers
  • Memory Cards of type SD, MMC, CompactFlash, MemoryStick, ... as well as any USB Flash Disks

Windows-based Boot Disk Requirements

  • IBM PC/AT compatible CPU
  • Video must be VGA or better resolution (800 x 600)
  • Intel Pentium processor or higher
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive or USB port to boot from

Linux-based Boot Disk (LiveCD) Requirements

  • IBM PC/AT compatible CPU
  • Video must be VGA or better resolution (800 x 600)
  • Intel Pentium processor or higher
  • 1 GB of RAM
  • CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive or USB port to boot from