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Active@ Partition Recovery for Windows
Helps you if a non-system partition is lost, i.e. you can boot Windows, install and run the software using Windows Operating System to recover deleted or damaged partitions located on data volumes, attached HDDs, as well as on external USB disks and Memory Cards (SunDisk, MemoryStick, CompactFlash, etc...). Boot system configurator (boot.ini) is corrected automatically to keep the system bootable. Also, damaged Volume Boot Sectors are corrected to maintain integrity of the partition. Software allows to fix a damaged MBR and GPT, and to delete invalid partitions. Supported creation and data recovery from Disk Images, including VMWare disks.
Compare packages »Active@ Partition Recovery Professional
This solution allows to recover both system partitions and non-system ones. Advanced Last Chance recovery method allows to detect and recover files by their specific signatures on severely damaged volumes. Supported 147 standard file signatures, including Music, Photos, Camera Raw Images, eBooks, Office Documents and more. Last Chance recovery is the only option when partition recovery was unsuccessful due to serious damage to the partitions data. Built-in file Organizer allows to rename and organize files (detected by signatures) in a proper directories structure.
Compare packages »Active@ Partition Recovery Ultimate
In addition to Professional features, contains a bootable ISO Image (WinPE based Active@ Boot Disk Lite) that you can burn to a CD-ROM or write to a USB Flash drive and boot Windows from this CD-ROM/USB to recover partitions (including the system ones) as well as to recover particular files and folders from within the familiar Windows environment. Ultimate edition includes also Linux-based bootable Active@ LiveCD (Linux recovery environment) being able to boot all the latest x86 & x64 UEFI secure boot systems as well as standard BIOS. Universal bootable disk creator prepares Windows or Linux boot disks for any type of media (CD/DVD/BD/USB). Ultimate version also includes the Active@ File Recovery - tool to recover deleted files, files on damaged partitions and to reconstruct damaged RAID disk arrays. Active@ File Recovery allows you to save particular files in case of unsuccessful partition recovery (for example, the file system itself is severely damaged).
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| Active@ Partition Recovery Toolkit Standard | ||
| Runs under Windows XP/Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019/2022/Vista/Windows 7/8/10/11 (x64 editions as well) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Displays complete physical disk partitioning and volume information | ✔ | ✔ |
| Large disks and volumes are supported (larger than 2TB) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Support for standard HDD sector size (512 bytes) and large sectors (4,096 bytes) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced extended scan algorithms detect damaged Microsoft FAT, exFAT, NTFS, Apple HFS+, ApFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, BtrFS and Unix UFS partitions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Supports SATA/eSATA/SSD/SAS/SCSI/NVMe disks and hardware RAIDs | ✔ | ✔ |
| Supports FAT, exFAT, NTFS, Apple HFS+, ApFS, FreeBSD UFS, Linux ExtFS, BtrFS file systems | ✔ | ✔ |
| Detects deleted or damaged primary and extended partitions and volumes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scans partitions damaged by virus or paritions having MBR / GPT damaged | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ability to evaluate partition integrity by previewing files on detected volumes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Displays complete partition info and recoverability status for detected volumes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ability to filter detected partitions by recoverability status and other attributes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Supports multi-language characters (unicode) and long file names | ✔ | ✔ |
| Creates Raw and Compressed Disk Images for physical disks and logical volumes | ✔ | ✔ |
| Opens and displays the content of Raw, Compressed and VMWare Disk Images | ✔ | ✔ |
| Creates backups for MBR, GPT, Partition Table and Volume Boot Sectors | ✔ | ✔ |
| Detected partitions and live volumes visual representation within disk area | ✔ | ✔ |
| Displays detailed recovery errors and suggestions to resolve recovery problems | ✔ | ✔ |
| 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 | ✔ | ✔ |
| Restores MBR, GPT, Partition Table and Boot Sectors from the backup | ✔ | |
| Restores detected partition information and saves it back to HDD | ✔ | |
| Performs rollbacks to previous state in case the recovery was not successfull | ✔ | |
| Option to delete invalid partitions after volume validity inspection | ✔ | |
| Corrects BOOT.INI automatically to keep the system bootable after re-partitioning | ✔ | |
| Corrects Volume Boot Sectors automatically to maintain the partitions' integrity | ✔ | |
| Manual mode for the correction Volume Boot Sectors provided for advanced users | ✔ | |
| Allows to fix damaged or missing MBR (Hard Disk Drive Master Boot Record) and GPT | ✔ | |
| Ability to recover all files and folders from Disk Images to another location | ✔ | |
| Performs partition recovery on-the-fly (no machine reboot is needed) | ✔ | |
| Option to recover volume in-place or to duplicate all volume data to a new disk | ✔ | |
| Option to recover only files, or to copy all data (sector-by-sector) to a new disk | ✔ | |
| Active@ Partition Recovery Professional | ||
| LastChance recovery mode detects files by their signatures on severely damaged volumes | ✔ | |
| Built-in Organizer allows to rename & organize files in folders (detected by signatures) | ✔ | |
| Includes integrated Active@ Disk Editor (Hex Viewer) - low-level disk and file inspector | ✔ | |
| Distributed via Windows Installer | ✔ | |
| Active@ Partition Recovery Ultimate | ||
| Includes Windows & Linux versions in one package. Windows Installer | ✔ | |
| LastChance recovery mode detects files by their signatures on severely damaged volumes | ✔ | |
| Built-in Organizer allows to rename & organize files in folders (detected by signatures) | ✔ | |
| Includes integrated Active@ Disk Editor (Hex Viewer) - low-level disk and file inspector | ✔ | |
| Includes Active@ File Recovery - recovery tool for restoring deleted files & damaged RAIDs | ✔ | |
| Includes WinPE-based Active@ Boot Disk Lite (Windows Recovery Environment) for recovery of system partitions on unbootable systems | ✔ | |
| Includes OpenSUSE-based Active@ LiveCD (Linux Recovery Environment) for unbootable systems recovery, being able to boot the latest x86 & x64 UEFI secure boot systems, and regular BIOS | ✔ | |
| Bootable Disk Creator allows you to create bootable USB Flash disk, as well as CD/DVD/Blu-ray disks | ✔ | |
| Bootable Disk customization - adding user files, changing network, security & language settings | ✔ | |