Description from the Publisher
Active@ Data Studio (Live CD) contains a set of both desktop applications and a bootable image for booting up any system into a DOS or Windows environments.
Whether you need to perform data recovery, data imaging, PC repair or to erase data securely, Active@ Data Studio (Live CD) allows you to run all these utilities from Windows desktop or to boot up the system from self-contained Windows boot image.
Installed components of Active@ Data Studio:
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Active@ Boot Disk Creator — utility for creating a bootable Windows on CD/DVD or USB flash media
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Active@ Disk Image — complete solution for data backup and restoring
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Active@ Disk Monitor — monitors hard disk drive health and status
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Active@ File Recovery — restores deleted files & folders, even from deleted, damaged or formatted volumes
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Active@ Disk Editor — low level advanced disk editor (Hex Viewer)
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Active@ KillDisk — secure disk erasing utility (DoD 5220.22M compliant)
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Active@ Partition Recovery — recovers damaged and accidentally deleted partitions
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Active@ Password Changer — resets Windows user account passwords
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Active@ UNDELETE — advanced data recovery toolset
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Active@ Data Burner — burns data to CD/DVD/BD media, command line supported
Features
Active@ Boot Disk
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Full access to non-bootable PC
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After loading basic system files into the RAM, the Active@ Boot Disk may be removed from the CD/DVD-drive and the drive becomes available, for example for data CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning.
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Active@ Boot Disk can be started from a CD, DVD, Blu-ray or USB flash drive (appropriate BIOS settings required)
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Multi-boot or dual-boot functionality (DOS + Windows) NEW!
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User friendly Boot Disk Creator interface NEW!
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Boot Disk Creator allows specifying boot settings like language and network NEW!
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Boot Disk customizing: add files, drivers, scripts and change boot settings. NEW!
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Boot Disk Creator component - an utility to make a bootable CD/DVD/Blu-ray, Flash drive or ISO image NEW!.
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Data recovery & file recovery utilities allow to recover deleted files, or recover data from deleted / damaged partitions.
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Disk data backup (Disk Image) and restore functionality.
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Create, delete and format partitions on hard disk drives, as well as USB and Floppy media
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Deleted partition recovery by using either editing partition table using low-level HEX editor, or via automated partition software.
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Reset your Windows Administrator password or local user account’s attributes
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DoD-compliant disk erasing & wiping of free space on the PC disks.
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Securely erase data.
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Hard Disk Drive temperature and S.M.A.R.T attributes monitoring utility
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Terminal client, Web browser, Telnet & FTP Clients, and other connectivity tools
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Paint, Notepad, WordPad Calculator, Task Manager, Registry Editor, HEX editor and other PC tools
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Optimize the files to reduce time taken for read/write operations from a hard disk with Disk Defragmenter NEW!
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Network access via TCP/IP, network configurator is included
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Additional driver loading on-the-fly, or from pre-configured directories
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Data CD/DVD burning for data backup and recovery purposes
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File management – browse directories, search, copy and move files and folders
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Works with Windows Clients: NT, Win2000 Wks, XP, Vista, Windows7, Windows8
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Works with Windows Servers : NT, 2000 Server, 2003, 2008
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Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, NTFS+EFS file systems
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Supports advanced search of deleted files
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Supports all types of Flash Memory Cards
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Supports localized and long filenames
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Supports compressed, encrypted and fragmented files on NTFS
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Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives
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10-days trial package can be registered and activated to commercial version (DOS, Windows, Suite) without reinstalling
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200 Driver Packs (USB3 / Mass Storage Devices / Network Cards)
Active@ Data CD/DVD Burner - Burner Utility
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Burns files and folders to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DL(Dual Layer)
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HD DVD-RAM, HD DVD-R ;BD-RW, BD-R, BD-RW DL, BD-R DL (Blu-ray)
Active@ File Recovery - File & Folders Recovery Tool
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Recovers deleted files from damaged, formatted, reformatted, or deleted partitions. (FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions)
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Two types of scan: QuickScan and SuperScan
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Extended scan detects deleted primary partitions and logical drives
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Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR
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Recovered files and folders can be saved on any local or network drives
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Creates Disk Image for logical and physical drives - for data recovery purposes
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Opens Disk Image and recovers files from it as from regular drive
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Disk Image is created in raw format that is compatible with other utilities
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Supports Hardware RAID Arrays and Software RAID Volumes
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Virtually rebuilds damaged RAID 0 - RAID 5 Arrays. RAID data recovery
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Visible representation of file or folder recoverability
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Event log
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Supports Drag & Drop for single and multiple deleted files recovery
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File Recovery Recognizes Files Based on File Signatures
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Active@ Scan technology allows you to recognize files based on file signatures for the following file types:
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Word Documents (*.DOC)
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Excel Spreadsheets ( *.XLS)
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Excel 2007 Spreadsheets (*.XLSX)
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Outlook Data Archives (*.PST)
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Word 2007 Documents (*.DOCX)
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JPEG Images (*.JPG)
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Bitmap Images (*.BMP)
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Corel Draw Files (*.CDR)
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Canon Raw Images (*.CRW;*.CR2)
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Nikon Raw Images (*.NEF)
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TIF/TIFF Images (*.TIF)
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Crystal Reports (*.RPT)
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Visio Diagrams (*.VSD)
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PowerPoint Presentations (*.PPT)
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PowerPoint 2007 Presentations (*.PPTX)
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AVI Files (*.AVI)
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WAV Files (*.WAV)
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MPG/MPEG Files (*.MPG)
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ANI Files (*.ANI)
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Zip Archives (*.ZIP)
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QuickBooks Files (*.QBW)
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Access Databases (*.MDB;*.SDW)
Active@ Partition Recovery - Partition Restore Utility
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Displays complete physical and logical drive information
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Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI drives
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Supports large (more than 128GB) size disks and volumes
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Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems
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Detects deleted primary/extended partitions and drives
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Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR
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Ability to preview partition files and folders before recovery
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Displays complete detected partition information as well as recoverability status
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Ability to filter detected partitions by recoverability status and detected attributes
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Displays long file names and non-English (Unicode) file names
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Creates a Raw Disk Image for disks and volumes
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Creates Backup for MBR, Partition Table, Volume Boot Sectors
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Restores MBR, Partition Table and Boot Sectors from the Backup
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Restores detected partition information back to HDD
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Corrects BOOT.INI automatically (if needed) to keep the system bootable
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Corrects Volume Boot Sectors automatically and manually to keep the partition integrity
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Allows to Fix damaged MBR and to Delete Invalid Partitions
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Performs partition recovery on-the-fly (no machine reboot is needed)
Active@ Disk Image - Backup Disk Image
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Backup Disk Image
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A copy of hard drives or disk partitions containing occupied sectors only
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May contain any set of hard drives & partitions as well as an exact copy of a PC
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Imaging and restoring basic or dynamic volumes
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Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, CDFS, UDF file systems
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Different levels of compression
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Splitting into chunks
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Password protection
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Raw Disk Image
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A sector by sector copy of hard drives or disk partitions
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Different level of compression
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Splitting into chunks
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Clone Disk
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Transferring data, sector-by-sector, from one partition or an entire disk directly to another partition or entire disk.
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Duplicate the same data to multiple hard drives
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Log Reports
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The log file contains a detailed list of actions performed during each operation.
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Three log formats supported: XML logs (used internally by software), plain text log (placed along with an image) and Windows Event logs.
Active@ KillDisk - Erase & Destroy Data
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Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive or logical partition
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Erases partitions, logical drives and unused disk space
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Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives
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Supports fixed disks, floppies, zip drives and Flash Media drives
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Supports large-sized drives (more than 128GB)
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Supports Command Line mode (can be run with no user interaction)
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Erases with one-pass zeros
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Erases with one-pass random characters
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Erases with user-defined number of passes (up to 99)
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US Department of Defense 5220.22 M compliant
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German VISTR compliant
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Russian GOST p50739-95 compliant
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Gutmann method compliant
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Customizable security levels
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Supports all detected hard disk drives
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Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
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Displays detected drive and partition information
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Scans NTFS and FAT volumes and displays existing and deleted files and folders
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Data verification may be performed after erasing is completed
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Disk Viewer allows you to preview any sectors or file clusters on a drive
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Wipes out NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 volumes from areas containing deleted and unused data
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Wipes out free clusters (unused by file data sectors)
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Wipes out file slack space (unused bytes in the last cluster occupied by file)
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Wipes out deleted MFT and ROOT system records
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Wipes out unused space in any MFT records and compressed clusters
Active@ Disk Monitor - Monitor & Control Disk Health
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HDD performance monitoring and control provides background hard disk performance monitoring and control over the disk's state.
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S.M.A.R.T. Technology - based on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).
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Scanning Disks for Bad Sectors - able to scan and display bad sectors on a disk's surface.
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E-mail and Popup notifications - sends an e-mail or a popup notification automatically if critical conditions appear.
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S.M.A.R.T. Attributes - displays current values of S.M.A.R.T. attributes, giving the extensive information about your hard disk's state.
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Disk Information - provides detailed hard disk information such as Serial/Model Number, Number of cylinders, and so on.
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Launch at Windows startup - can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the HDD(s) in the background.
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Event logs and reports - generates event log and S.M.A.R.T. reports with detailed information about disk(s) activity over the period of time.
Active@ Password Changer - Recover & Reset Passwords
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Recovers passwords from multiple partitions and hard disk drives
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Detects and displays all Microsoft Security Databases (SAM)
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Displays all local users
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Displays full account information for any local user
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Resets administrator's password
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Resets user's password
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Resets "User is Disabled" flag
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Sets "Password Never Expires" flag for user's account
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Ability to change (set or clear) user's account flags:
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"User must change password at next logon", "Password never expires", "Account is disabled", "Account is locked out"
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Ability to manage logon time (Permitted logon hours) for a local user
Active@ Partition Manager - Create, Format & Delete Partitions
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Creates a partition or logical drive
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Formats a logical drive or partition (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS)
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Assigns or changes partition attributes
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Formats a Flash memory card as NTFS
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Deletes a partition or logical drive
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Creates FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB in size (up to 1Tb)
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Marks partition as active.
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Creates several partitions on a USB flash memory device
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Displays the properties of a partition, logical drive or hard drive device