Active@ Data Studio 17

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:

• Active@ Boot Disk Creator — utility for creating a bootable Windows on CD/DVD or USB flash media
• Active@ Disk Image — complete solution for data backup and restoring
• Active@ Disk Monitor — monitors hard disk drive health and status
• Active@ File Recovery — restores deleted files & folders, even from deleted, damaged or formatted volumes
• Active@ Disk Editor — low level advanced disk editor (Hex Viewer)
• Active@ KillDisk — secure disk erasing utility (DoD 5220.22M compliant)
• Active@ Partition Recovery — recovers damaged and accidentally deleted partitions
• Active@ Password Changer — resets Windows user account passwords
• Active@ UNDELETE — advanced data recovery toolset
• Active@ Data Burner — burns data to CD/DVD/BD media, command line supported

Features

Active@ Boot Disk

• Full access to non-bootable PC
• 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.
• Active@ Boot Disk can be started from a CD, DVD, Blu-ray or USB flash drive (appropriate BIOS settings required)
• Multi-boot or dual-boot functionality (DOS + Windows) NEW!
• User friendly Boot Disk Creator interface NEW!
• Boot Disk Creator allows specifying boot settings like language and network NEW!
• Boot Disk customizing: add files, drivers, scripts and change boot settings. NEW!
• Boot Disk Creator component - an utility to make a bootable CD/DVD/Blu-ray, Flash drive or ISO image NEW!.
• Data recovery & file recovery utilities allow to recover deleted files, or recover data from deleted / damaged partitions.
• Disk data backup (Disk Image) and restore functionality.
• Create, delete and format partitions on hard disk drives, as well as USB and Floppy media
• Deleted partition recovery by using either editing partition table using low-level HEX editor, or via automated partition software.
• Reset your Windows Administrator password or  local user account’s attributes
• DoD-compliant disk erasing & wiping of free space on the PC disks.
• Securely erase data.
• Hard Disk Drive temperature and S.M.A.R.T attributes monitoring utility
• Terminal client, Web browser, Telnet & FTP Clients, and other connectivity tools
• Paint, Notepad, WordPad Calculator, Task Manager, Registry Editor, HEX editor and other PC tools
• Optimize the files to reduce time taken for read/write operations from a hard disk with Disk Defragmenter NEW!
• Network access via TCP/IP, network configurator is included
• Additional driver loading on-the-fly, or from pre-configured directories
• Data CD/DVD burning for data backup and recovery purposes
• File management – browse directories, search, copy and move files and folders
• Works with Windows Clients: NT, Win2000 Wks, XP, Vista, Windows7, Windows8
• Works with Windows Servers : NT, 2000 Server, 2003, 2008
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, NTFS+EFS file systems
• Supports advanced search of deleted files
• Supports all types of Flash Memory Cards
• Supports localized and long filenames
• Supports compressed, encrypted and fragmented files on NTFS
• Supports IDE / ATA / SCSI drives
• 10-days trial package can be registered and activated to commercial version (DOS, Windows, Suite) without reinstalling
• 200 Driver Packs (USB3 / Mass Storage Devices / Network Cards)

Active@ Data CD/DVD Burner - Burner Utility

• Burns files and folders to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DL(Dual Layer)
• 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

• Recovers deleted files from damaged, formatted, reformatted, or deleted partitions. (FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions)
• Two types of scan: QuickScan and SuperScan
• Extended scan detects deleted primary partitions and logical drives
• Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR
• Recovered files and folders can be saved on any local or network drives
• Creates Disk Image for logical and physical drives - for data recovery purposes
• Opens Disk Image and recovers files from it as from regular drive
• Disk Image is created in raw format that is compatible with other utilities
• Supports Hardware RAID Arrays and Software RAID Volumes
• Virtually rebuilds damaged RAID 0 - RAID 5 Arrays. RAID data recovery
• Visible representation of file or folder recoverability
• Event log
• Supports Drag & Drop for single and multiple deleted files recovery
• File Recovery Recognizes Files Based on File Signatures
• Active@ Scan technology allows you to recognize files based on file signatures for the following file types:
  • Word Documents (*.DOC)
  • Excel Spreadsheets ( *.XLS)
  • Excel 2007 Spreadsheets (*.XLSX)
  • Outlook Data Archives (*.PST)
  • Word 2007 Documents (*.DOCX)
  • JPEG Images (*.JPG)
  • Bitmap Images (*.BMP)
  • Corel Draw Files (*.CDR)
  • Canon Raw Images (*.CRW;*.CR2)
  • Nikon Raw Images (*.NEF)
  • TIF/TIFF Images (*.TIF)
  • Crystal Reports (*.RPT)
  • Visio Diagrams (*.VSD)
  • PowerPoint Presentations (*.PPT)
  • PowerPoint 2007 Presentations (*.PPTX)
  • AVI Files (*.AVI)
  • WAV Files (*.WAV)
  • MPG/MPEG Files (*.MPG)
  • ANI Files (*.ANI)
  • Zip Archives (*.ZIP)
  • QuickBooks Files (*.QBW)
  • Access Databases (*.MDB;*.SDW)

Active@ Partition Recovery - Partition Restore Utility

• Displays complete physical and logical drive information
• Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI drives
• Supports large (more than 128GB) size disks and volumes
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems
• Detects deleted primary/extended partitions and drives
• Scans partitions damaged by virus or with damaged MBR
• Ability to preview partition files and folders before recovery
• Displays complete detected partition information as well as recoverability status
• Ability to filter detected partitions by recoverability status and detected attributes
• Displays long file names and non-English (Unicode) file names
• Creates a Raw Disk Image for disks and volumes
• Creates Backup for MBR, Partition Table, Volume Boot Sectors
• Restores MBR, Partition Table and Boot Sectors from the Backup
• Restores detected partition information back to HDD
• Corrects BOOT.INI automatically (if needed) to keep the system bootable
• Corrects Volume Boot Sectors automatically and manually to keep the partition integrity
• Allows to Fix damaged MBR and to Delete Invalid Partitions
• Performs partition recovery on-the-fly (no machine reboot is needed)

Active@ Disk Image - Backup Disk Image

• Backup Disk Image
• A copy of hard drives or disk partitions containing occupied sectors only
• May contain any set of hard drives & partitions as well as an exact copy of a PC
• Imaging and restoring basic or dynamic volumes
• Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, CDFS, UDF file systems
• Different levels of compression
• Splitting into chunks
• Password protection
• Raw Disk Image
• A sector by sector copy of hard drives or disk partitions
• Different level of compression
• Splitting into chunks
• Clone Disk
• Transferring data, sector-by-sector, from one partition or an entire disk directly to another partition or entire disk.
• Duplicate the same data to multiple hard drives
• Log Reports
• The log file contains a detailed list of actions performed during each operation.
• 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

• Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive or logical partition
• Erases partitions, logical drives and unused disk space
• Supports IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives
• Supports fixed disks, floppies, zip drives and Flash Media drives
• Supports large-sized drives (more than 128GB)
• Supports Command Line mode (can be run with no user interaction)
• Erases with one-pass zeros
• Erases with one-pass random characters
• Erases with user-defined number of passes (up to 99)
• US Department of Defense 5220.22 M compliant
• German VISTR compliant
• Russian GOST p50739-95 compliant
• Gutmann method compliant
• Customizable security levels
• Supports all detected hard disk drives
• Erasing report is created and can be saved as a file
• Displays detected drive and partition information
• Scans NTFS and FAT volumes and displays existing and deleted files and folders
• Data verification may be performed after erasing is completed
• Disk Viewer allows you to preview any sectors or file clusters on a drive
• Wipes out NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and FAT12 volumes from areas containing deleted and unused data
• Wipes out free clusters (unused by file data sectors)
• Wipes out file slack space (unused bytes in the last cluster occupied by file)
• Wipes out deleted MFT and ROOT system records
• Wipes out unused space in any MFT records and compressed clusters

Active@ Disk Monitor - Monitor & Control Disk Health

• HDD performance monitoring and control provides background hard disk performance monitoring and control over the disk's state.
• S.M.A.R.T. Technology - based on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.).
• Scanning Disks for Bad Sectors - able to scan and display bad sectors on a disk's surface.
• E-mail and Popup notifications - sends an e-mail or a popup notification automatically if critical conditions appear.
• 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.
• Disk Information - provides detailed hard disk information such as Serial/Model Number, Number of cylinders, and so on.
• Launch at Windows startup - can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the HDD(s) in the background.
• 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

• Recovers passwords from multiple partitions and hard disk drives
• Detects and displays all Microsoft Security Databases (SAM)
• Displays all local users
• Displays full account information for any local user
• Resets administrator's password
• Resets user's password
• Resets "User is Disabled" flag
• Sets "Password Never Expires" flag for user's account
• Ability to change (set or clear) user's account flags:
• "User must change password at next logon", "Password never expires", "Account is disabled", "Account is locked out"
• Ability to manage logon time (Permitted logon hours) for a local user

Active@ Partition Manager - Create, Format & Delete Partitions

• Creates a partition or logical drive
• Formats a logical drive or partition (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS)
• Assigns or changes partition attributes
• Formats a Flash memory card as NTFS
• Deletes a partition or logical drive
• Creates FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB in size (up to 1Tb)
• Marks partition as active.
• Creates several partitions on a USB flash memory device
• Displays the properties of a partition, logical drive or hard drive device