Active@ Partition Recovery Guide 4
Overview
What Happened to my Data?
When partition (volume, drive, etc...) is deleted from a hard drive, two systems are notified:
1. The partition record in the Partition Table (which is a part of MBR) is removed.
2. Space where partition was located is labeled as 'unoccupied'. The data itself is not removed.
In the event of an accidental partition deletion we strongly recommend that you perform the recovery
operation as soon as possible. If any new partition is created instead on the same space and some
information is written there, there is a chance that the writing process may allocate some data in this
'unoccupied space' thus damaging you data located on the partition deleted previously.
Welcome to Active@ Partition Recovery
Active@ Partition Recovery is a powerful software utility, designed to restore accidentally deleted partitions
and partitions being damaged by virus or any other cause. Active@ Partition Recovery can be installed on
and run from USB disk or bootable CD/DVD, so that the risk of overwriting your data is minimized.
Active@ Partition Recovery will help you to restore partitions residing on hard drives formatted in any of the
following file systems:
• Microsoft FAT/exFAT, NTFS & ReFS
• Apple HFS+ / ApFS
• Linux Ext2 / Ext3 / Ext4, XFS, JFS & BtrFS
• Unix UFS, JFS, XFS & ZFS
• CD/DVD/Blu-ray, UDF & ISO9660
It works under all Windows family operating systems:
• Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7
• Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022
• Windows XP, Vista
• Windows PE (embedded Windows environment loaded from CD/DVD/BD or USB disk
Active@ Partition Recovery supports:
• IDE, SATA, eSATA, SAS, SSD, NVMe, SCSI hard drives, USB Drives and Memory Cards
• Large-sized drives (more than 2 TB)
• Detection and recovery of deleted or damaged partitions
• Saving scan results to the storage and opening them later on
• Deleted partitions filtering
• Correcting BOOT.INI if needed to keep the system bootable
• Fixing damaged MBR and Deleting invalid partitions
• Automatic and Manual correction of Volume Boot Sectors
• Disk Image creation for further data recovery purposes
• Integration with a Disk Viewer/Editor - to be able to inspect raw disk/partition/file data
New in version 24
Latest recovery Kernel 14.01.17 many improvements and bug fixes
Improved recovery for volumes with cluster size > 64Kb
Added Virtual Device mode that allows to define custom sector size and starting data offset within a sector
Improved Boot Disk – added Display Scaling and Network Drive Mapping
Active@ Boot Disk upgraded to WinPE based on Windows Server 23H2 code base