Active Boot Disk contains a powerful suite of utilities for performing data recovery, resetting your local password, securely erasing data, and a number of other tasks, all from a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive. You can also use Active@ Data Studio.
Active Boot Disk is a complete and functional computer operating system on CD/DVD/USB drive. Active Boot Disk does not modify the operating system already installed on a computer's hard drive. It includes numerous tools for booting a computer and resolving most boot, PC configuration, and system management problems.
Key features of Active Boot Disk:
– Ability to boot a non-bootable PC for exclusive access to the disks and the entire system
– Boot from a CD, DVD, Blu-ray drive or USB flash drive (appropriate BIOS settings required)
– Initializes UEFI x64 Secure Boot systems and legacy BIOS machines
– Password changer to reset your local Windows password
– The 64-bit (x64) architecture speeds up software execution and optimizes RAM usage
– Boot Disk Shell has a user-friendly, Windows-like interface with a taskbar and Start button
– Boot Disk Creator allows you to specify boot parameters, load drivers, scripts, and user files
– Ability to load additional drivers for specific hardware during and after PC startup
– Supports NTFS, FAT/exFAT, HFS+, UFS, XFS, Ext2/3/4, BtrFS, CDFS file systems, UDF file system recovery
– Supports all types of IDE/SATA/SSD/SCSI drives, RAID arrays, USB/USB3 drives, and flash cards
– The professional version includes Windows PowerShell, WMI, iSCSI, BitLocker, SSH and more
– Recovery tools restore deleted files and data on formatted/deleted/damaged volumes
Data backup tools allow you to back up volumes and disks and restore data.
– Partition tools allow you to create/delete/format volumes on hard drives/SSDs/USB drives
– BCD Viewer & Editor allows you to configure partitions and bootable disks
– Low-level Disk Editor allows you to inspect and modify raw disk sectors and raw file data
– Utility for resetting your Windows user passwords, including the administrator account
– The compliance tool (DoD 5220.22-M) securely erases user data
– Disk monitoring utility for hard drive temperature and SMART attribute control
– Data CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning utility and burning engine included
Notepad, calculator, task manager, registry editor, DiskPart, SysInfo and other PC tools
– The network configuration allows you to configure network connections (DHCP and predefined IP)
– Web browser, terminal clients, Telnet and FTP clients, and other connectivity tools
– Document viewer previews PDF, CHM, XPS, ebooks: ePUB, MOBI, FB2, PRC, DjVu, CBZ
– Image viewer, previews almost all types of images: JPG, GIF, TIF, PSD, Camera Raw…
– Two file managers (Explorer & 7-Zip) allow you to browse directories, search, copy and move files and folders, create and extract almost all archives (Zip, Rar, 7z, Bz2, Tar…)
Version : Lite (x64) 26.0.2.2 /(x64) 25.2.1a /(x86) 14.1.1
Language : English
Size : Lite (x64): 509.16 MB / (x64): 737.78 MB / (x86): 399.96 MB
Configuration:
– Processor (x86/x64 Bits): 2 Ghz
Download Active Boot Disk Lite v26.0.2.2 (x64)
Download Active Boot Disk v25.2.1a (x64)
Download Active Boot Disk 14.1.1 (x86)
This article was updated on January 21, 2026
