Re: Active@ Boot Disk 14.1.0 Full ISO Free Download
Otniel Doetzel
Active@ Boot Disk Creator helps you prepare a bootable CD/DVD/Blu-ray or USB Flash mass storage device that you can use to start a machine with a damaged hard drive and recover data, recover partitions, wipe or erase data, create a disk image or repair security access issues.
If you've created ISO Image file, you can burn it up later on, either using our free Active@ ISO Burner utility (www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm), or have a disk burning utility that you prefer to use, use it to burn the ISO on a disk. Section 1.3.2 has instructions for some other utilities.
To continue the train of reviews on software developed by LSoft Technologies Inc., I'll be reviewing one of their core products: Active@ Boot Disk. What this software proves itself to be is a powerful disk utility tool that allows the user to create a portable, working bootable disk that...
Active@ Boot Disk does not modify the operating system already installed on a computer's hard drive. It includes many tools to boot up a computer and fix most startup, PC configuration, and system management problems.
My Windows Server 2008 R2 won't start and stops with Stop 7B, so I start the recovery console and use diskpart to check the disk. There are to partitions one of Type 17 and one of type 07, the detail disk command show me that the disk is not a boot disk. How can I set this boot flag with diskpart? Or is this flag only set true if the MBR works fine. I try following commands:
"On the Recovery Console, which is included in all Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, there is a diskpart command which is significantly different from the one included in the actual operating system. It only provides functionality for adding and deleting partitions, but not for setting an active partition. The utility is also provided in the Windows Recovery Environment, the successor of the original Recovery Console"
I originally had XP in partition0, then I installed Win81 (aka Dual Boot) and it installed Win81 to partition1. Btw, there's a procedure to remove the old Microsoft partition0 OS elsewhere on the web (says for Win7)(btw,you can use gparted to set Win81 as Boot, which equals Active via Diskpart). Then I used Gparted to slide the Win81 partition over the unallocated space. Then I needed to use Steps 9 and 10 above to get rid of 0xc000025 on winload.exe and be able to boot into Win81 on the HDD.
Active@ Boot Disk is a CD/DVD/USB flash drive that allows you to install an entire operating system on a single disk. It contains several tools to help you fix the problems with your computer's startup, configuration, and management. It includes a boot manager to manage the operating system and fix any problems.
A master boot record (MBR) is a particular type of boot sector at the very beginning of partitioned storage device that holds the information on how the logical partitions, containing file systems, are organized on that medium.
The MBR functions as a loader (bootloader) for the installed operating system. It usually passes control over to the loader's second stage, or in conjunction with each partition's volume boot record (VBR).
A bit more elegant solution is performing the fix from the bootable drive (Active@ Boot Disk) that comes with Active@ Undelete Professional. Alternatively, you can use our Active@ Partition Recovery for the same purpose.
Insert a USB or CD/DVD drive into the computer and run Boot Disk Creator that came with Undelete Professional. Select the drive where you want to install boot disk, if required initialize it and then click Next.
Verify your settings and click on Create. Boot disk should be created within a couple of minutes. After the creation has been completed, your bootable drive is ready for use. When using it on the malfunctioning PC, enter the BIOS and set Boot Priority on the bootable drive.
If all the check marks in the left column are green, then you have successfully recovered your MBR. All you need to do now is click OK and restart your computer. Your system should boot without any issues.
Select either MBR (Master Boot Record) or GPT (GUID Partition Table) partition style.
GPT partition style is not supported by older versions of Windows. It is recommended for disks larger then 2TB. For all other purposes we recommend to use MBR partition style
Primary partition table records will be cleared.
It is highly recommended to not clear primary partition table in case of restoring deleted or damaged disk partitioning. 4. Click OK to complete disk initialization
Be careful if you have any other storage devices attached to the box in question. One time, a friend of mine used DBAN to nuke a machine and accidentally wiped the same flash drive he booted from and DBAN was stored on.
It's been a long time but I remember at a previous job when we had a stack of floppies covered with big red stickers that were setup to automatically wipe a computer on reboot without any user interaction. At the time, multipass wipes were part of our imaging process.
I have used Active Boot with its Active Kill Disk (DOD rated wipe) for the last 5 years or so. The price is 100-120$ for a lisence, but I have to say, the tools this bootable flash OS holds are priceless. Active Kill Disk, mapping drives, remote connections, password wipes in the SAM DB for lost windows passwords, and plethora of other tools at your disposal all contained within a flash drive less than 256MB. It also contains Active Data Recovery, partition managers and a few other drive related tools, including Smart testing.
The above tools work well too, but its usually a matter of preference to the Admin, a lot of guys stick to what they like. I use Activeboot as its nearly the same as the old Super ERD Commander in the Win 2000 days only now has more tools. I have even run win32 applications and portable apps right from the os, as it the current version is built on the windows 7 environment.
Do you have made the boot disk inactive? In this case, your PC may not boot up. In this post, MiniTool Partition Wizard tells you what partition should be active and how to make active boot disk with 2 methods.
In computer, the hard drive that has operating system installed is called boot disk. On the boot disk, there are many partitions. The most important two partitions are system reserved partition and C drive.
As you can see in the above picture, the C drive is the boot partition and it contains page file and crash dump; the system reserved partition is the active system partition but it has no drive letter.
Step 1: Use MiniTool Partition Wizard to make a bootable media on a normally running PC. As for the detailed steps, you can refer to this post: How Can I Create a Partition Magic Boot CD?
Step 2: Connect the bootable media to the unbootable PC and boot into BIOS to change boot order. Then the PC will boot from the bootable media. As for the detailed steps, you can refer to this post: How to Access Asus Boot Menu to Make Asus Boot from USB?
This behavior occurs if the partition marked as active does not contain the Windows boot files or the boot files for another operating system. On Intel-based computers, the system partition must be a primary partition that has been marked as active for startup purposes. This partition must be located on the disk that the computer gains access to at startup. There can be only one active system partition at a time. If you want to use another operating system, you must first mark its system partition as active before restarting the computer.
If the partition that has been incorrectly marked as active is formatted in the FAT file system, the FAT32 file system, or the NTFS file system, you may be able to use the Windows Recovery Console to correct the behavior.
The system partition refers to the disk volume that contains the files that are needed to start Windows (for example, Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com). On Intel x86-based computers, the system partition must be a primary partition that is marked active. On Intel x86 computers, this is always drive 0, the drive that the system BIOS searches when the operating system starts.
Active@ Boot Disk is a complete and functioning computer operating system on CD/DVD/USB disk. The program does not modify the operating system already installed on a computer's hard drive. It includes many tools to boot up a computer and fix most startup, PC configuration, and system management problems.
I'm need to find a method to programmatically determine which disk drive Windows is using to boot. In other words, I need a way from Windows to determine which drive the BIOS is using to boot the whole system.
p.s. Just reading the first sectors of the hard disk isn't reveling anything. On my dev box I have two hard disks, and when I look at the contents of the first couple of sectors on either of the hard disks I have a standard boiler plate MBR.
Edit to clarify a few things.The way I want to identify the device is with a string which will identify a physical disk drive (as opposed to a logical disk drive). Physical disk drives are of the form "\\.\PHYSICALDRIVEx" where x is a number. On the other hand, a logical drive is identified by a string of the form, "\\.\x" where x is a drive letter.
Edit to discuss a few of the ideas that were thrown out.Knowing which logical volume Windows used to boot doesn't help me here. Here is the reason. Assume that C: is using a mirrored RAID setup. Now, that means we have at least two physical drives. Now, I get the mapping from Logical Drive to Physical Drive and I discover that there are two physical drives used by that volume. Which one did Windows use to boot? Of course, this is assuming that the physical drive Windows used to boot is the same physical drive that contains the MBR.
You can use WMI to figure this out. The Win32_BootConfiguration class will tell you both the logical drive and the physical device from which Windows boots. Specifically, the Caption property will tell you which device you're booting from.
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