Version History - Active@ Partition Recovery

25 Jan 31, 2025

NEW

Added eBooks signatures recovery: MOBI, AZW, AZ3, AZ4, PRC, EPUB

IMPROVED

Improved recovery of properties for PDF, MP3 and other signatures
Latest recovery Kernel 15.01.17 includes many improvements and bug fixes
Included the latest Active@ Disk Editor 25 for low level disk data analysis
The latest Linux Boot Disk based on openSUSE Leap 15.6
Active@ Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows 11 24H2 code base

24 Jan 29, 2024

NEW

Added Virtual Device Creation: Reconstruct disks having sector size other than physical sector size
Added Virtual Device Creation: Reconstruct devices having non-zero data start offset in sector

IMPROVED

New Recovery Kernel version 14.1.17
Improved recovery volumes with clusters size > 64Kb
Bug fixes and performance enhancements
Improved Boot Disk Creator – added Display Scaling and Network Resource mapping
The latest Active@ Boot Disk based on WinPE 10.0.25398.1 (Windows Server 23H2 code base)
Boot Disk includes much more storage drivers for Dell, HP and Lenovo devices

23 Feb 4, 2023

NEW

Ultimate package: Boot Disk Creator can store configuration for WIM PXE boot

IMPROVED

Improved recovery of NTFS volumes formatted with large cluster size
Latest recovery kernel version 13.1.31 contains many improvements
Upgraded to Qt framework version 5.12.5 and Platform Kit v143
Ultimate package: Active@ Boot Disk - WinPE upgraded to Windows 11 22H2 base

22 Mar 24, 2022

NEW

Added Apple iWork Pages (PAGES) file signatures recognition
Added Apple iWork Numbers (NUMBERS) file signatures recognition
Added Apple iWork Keynotes (KEY) file signatures recognition

IMPROVED

Performance enhancements and bug fixes
Improved Bootable Disk Creator and Active@ Boot Disk switched to the latest WinPE based on Windows 11 v21H2 code base

21 Oct 19, 2020

NEW

Added applying Boot Sector Template (all major file systems supported) to any disk’s sector

IMPROVED

Latest Recovery Kernel includes many improvements and bug fixes
Ultimate version: Active@ Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows 10 build 2004
Ultimate version: Active@ LiveCD upgraded to openSUSE 15.2: Linux Kernel 5.3, KDE 5.18

20 May 15, 2020

NEW

Added recovery of new Apple’s ApFS file system
Added new pre-defined file signatures recognition: Ancestral Quest Database File (AQ), LibreOffice Documents (ODT, ODG, ODP, OPDS, ODF, ODB), WPS Office Documents (OCX, XLSX, PPTX)

IMPROVED

Re-implemented recovery of Microsoft ReFS file system to get more stable & reliable code
Latest Recovery Kernel including many improvements & minor bug fixes
Ultimate package: the latest Active@ Boot Disk utilities & Boot Disk Creator
Ultimate package: Active@ Live now supports PCI-E NVMe M.2 disks

19 October 4, 2019

NEW

New pre-defined file signatures recognition: Canon Raw Image File (CR3), Finale Notation File (MUSX)

IMPROVED

Redesigned Welcome Screen & Registration
Improved recovery of volumes with 4KB sector
Latest Recovery Kernel, many improvements
Ultimate package: Active@ Live now supports PCI-E NVMe M.2 disks

18 November 6, 2018

NEW

Implemented more pre-defined algorithms for file signatures recognition: - Microsoft Office Documents (ONE, PUB); - MySQL files (IBD,FRM,MYI); - Oracle VirtualBox (VDI); - Betacase Client Info (BCB)
New Easy Mode for File Recovery

IMPROVED

Improved software stability

17 Fenruary 23, 2018

NEW

Microsoft ReFS v 3.x file system data recovery
New signatures: MS SQL .MDF, Virtual HDD .VHDX

IMPROVED

Improved Linux/Unix JFS/XFS filesystem recovery
Improved WSS partition handling
Improved LDM & LVM dynamic arrays recovery
Improved stability working with damaged disks
Active@ Boot Disk switched to WinPE 10 x64
Active@ LiveCD switched to KDE5 base (64-bit)

16 April 6, 2017

NEW

Microsoft new ReFS file system data recovery
Linux/Unix JFS file system scan & data recovery
Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces recovery
New signatures: AI, ACCDB, OST, DB3, SVG...
Fragmented files recovery by signatures (MP4)
Optimized SuperScan speed & memory usage
Full support for HiDPI monitors

15 March 22, 2016

NEW

Linux/Unix XFS file system scan & data recovery
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) recovery
New signatures: AC3, MSG, 3DS, MAX, DXF...
Files metadata display: $FILE, $INDX & $DIR

IMPROVED

Improved LDM support for nested volumes
Improved display for HiDPI and large resolutions

14 May 11, 2015

NEW

Added progress display for taskbar icon
Added support for latest UEFI Secure Boot
Active@ Boot Disk switched to 64-bit (x64)
Added file signatures: ODB, ODF, ODG, ODP, ODS
Ultimate package includes LiveCD & Boot Disk

IMPROVED

Improved work with large & unstable disks
Improved display for HiDPI and large resolutions

12 February 14, 2015

NEW

Added skip bad sectors option
Added file signatures: STL, AEP, ISO, DWG, C4D

IMPROVED

Improved disk formatting & recovery algorithms
Increased scan speed for signatures detection

11 October 7, 2014

NEW

Added Last Chance recovery method for detecting and restoring files by their signatures
Files detected by signatures can be renamed and organized in folder's before recovery occures
Added Linux BtrFS file system recovery
Added option of recovery only volume's files & folders, in addition to sector-by-sector copy
Included the latest Active@ Disk Editor & Active@ File Recovery 13
New Ultimate package beyond Windows-based Active@ Boot Disk now includes Linux-based bootable Active@ LiveCD
Active@ LiveCD (Linux-based) boots all the latest x86 & x64 UEFI secure boot systems

10 January 15, 2014

NEW

Added 64-bit executable to perform faster on x64 platforms
Extended volume properties displayed

IMPROVED

Improved scanning and recovery algorithms
Increased scan speed for signatures detection
Latest Active@ Disk Editor 4
Latest version of last chance recovery tool Active@ File Recovery v. 12
Enterprise version: the latest Active@ Boot Disk Lite 8 & all the latest boot disk utilities

9.5 October 24, 2013

NEW

Ability to open Disk Image and recover all files and folders from a disk image to another location
Support for Raw and Compressed disk images and any raw disk images created by third party tools
Support for VMWARE disk images (*.vmdk) and VirtualPC disk images (*.vhd)

IMPROVED

Enterprise version: the latest Active@ Boot Disk Lite 7.5 and all the latest utilities

9 July 5, 2013

NEW

Added recovery of all volume data at once: 'Copy All Data to a New Disk' function
Enhanced support for recovery of FreeBSD Unix UFS and Linux Ext2/Ext3/Ext4fs file systems
New application style: Light color scheme by default
Professional and Enterprise editions now include the latest Active@ File Recovery ver. 11
Enterprise version: the latest Active@ Boot Disk Lite ver. 7.1 and the latest utilities

IMPROVED

Improved integration with Active@ Disk Editor 3.0 (HexViewer) - to inspect disks and partitions on a low level
Improvements in data recovery kernel: more deleted and damaged volumes can be detected

8 January 21, 2013

NEW

Added support for recovery of FreeBSD Unix UFS and Linux Ext4fs file systems
Added stand-alone and integrated Disk Editor (Hex Viewer) component - to inspect disks and partitions on a low level (raw sectors)
Flexible application style: can be changed from Dark to Light color schemas
Convenient 'Go Back' and 'Go Up' navigation buttons and key combinations added
Enterprise: Password protection and network pre-configuration added to Boot Disk Creator; the latest utils, Virtual Keyboard...
Professional and Enterprise editions now include the latest Active@ File Recovery ver. 10

IMPROVED

Improvements in recovery kernel: faster scans and more partitions can be detected

7 June 7, 2012

NEW

Added support for recovery of exFAT, Apple HFS+, Linux Ext2/Ext3 file systems
Completely re-designed graphical user interface having visual representation of SuperScan process
Includes freeware DOS tools, Disk Editor and 'How to' step-by-step recovery guide with examples
Support for not only 512 bytes standard sector size, but 4096 bytes sector size in newest HDDs
Advanced filtering of found volumes by recoverability flags and integrity statuses
Previewing of files on detected partitions before partition recovery occurs
Visualization of found volumes within disk area, including overlapping with live drives
Professional and Enterprise editions now include the latest Active@ File Recovery ver. 9.5

IMPROVED

Improved QuickScan/SuperScan algorithms, detecting more deleted and damaged partitions
Detailed descriptions of recovery errors, and actions suggested to avoid the problems

6.5 April 4, 2012

NEW

Professional and Enterprise editions now include the latest Active@ File Recovery 9.0

IMPROVED

Improved Bootable Disk Creator
Improved Extended Scan algorithms

6 April 4, 2012

NEW

Enterprise version now contains full installation bootable ISO (no additional download required)
Enterprise version: Windows PE updated to version 3.1 (Windows 7 SP1)

IMPROVED

Improved FAT partitions search
Minor kernel and GUI improvements
Fixed bug caused exception on hard disks > 2TB

5 September 26, 2006

NEW

First release of Active@ Partition Recovery Windows version
Professional version includes last chance data recovery tool: Active@ File Recovery
Enterprise version includes bootable Windows disk based on WinPE 2.0 (XP-based)