Active@ Boot Disk 9.0.0

TRF,

Good point. You can install Win8 in MBR mode and have 128 primary partitions on your second HD (etc) but not on your boot drive. Still, you can create numerous logical volumes on the boot drive if needed. But primary partitions are more robust than logical volumes. You find this out when you try to undelete deleted logical volumes. It's hit and miss.

You mentioned "require such a feature (without BIBM) is another thing all together." I agree. I see people with multiple partitions that aren't really necessary. It's more efficient to have a single data partition containing multiple folders than multiple partitions each containing one folder.

 

no point in me re-installing then seeing as i don't have a secureboot enabled motherboard and mostly use 1 partition per drive

 

It seems that Version 9 is freeware now. It's based on 32-bit WinPE 3.1 (Windows 7 SP1).
Just click on "Boot Disk 9" text: https://www.boot-disk.com/index.html

It doesn't support UEFI secure boot (supported by Windows 8 and 10), but you can temporarily disable it if you use it.

 

The latest Active@ Boot Disk is ver 17. It supports UEFI with Secure Boot. There is a demo version

 

Softpedia says v17 is a trial version and it expires after 10 days. That should mean that the created boot disk won't boot after 10 days, right? Of course, not a problem if you have multiple machines, so you can use the other one to make a new disk.

 

Pliskin,

My demo ver 17 UFD is only 7 days old. My demo ver 16 UFD is 6 months old and boots fine in UEFI mode.

 

Thank you for the info.

That's kinda strange, why would they even mention v9, let alone call it freeware, when it's a demo and newer versions are also a demo (usable), so...

Edit: It makes sense to mention v9, because it's the last 32-bit version, but still why call it freeware.

 

Pliskin,

My demo ver 17 UFD is 3 weeks old and still boots fine in UEFI mode.

 

I downloaded and installed v9. It's actually v17. Strange.