Boot Disk Creator

4.1 Active@ Boot Disk Creator

Active@ Boot Disk Creator helps you prepare a bootable CD, DVD or USB mass storage device that you may use to start a machine and repair security access issues or destroy all data on the hard drives.

To prepare a bootable device for Windows:

1. From the Windows Start menu, click All Programs > Active@ KillDisk Professional > Bootable Disk Creator. The Active@ Boot Disk Creator main page appears.
2. In the Active@ Boot Disk Creator main page, select the desired bootable media: CD/DVD/Blu-ray, USB Flash Drive or ISO Image file (to be burned later on). If several media drives inserted, click the ellipsis button (…) and choose a particular device. Click Next.
3. Click Boot into Windows. At this step you can specify additional options:
   1. To add your custom files to bootable media, click User's Files tab. Add files or folders using related buttons at the right side. Added items will be placed to User_Files root folder.
   2. To add specific drivers to be loaded automatically, click Add Drivers tab. Add all files for the particular driver (*.INF, *.SYS, …). Added items will be placed to BootDisk_Drivers root folder. At boot time all *.INF files located in this folder will be installed.
   3. To add specific scripts to be launched after Active@ Boot Disk is loaded, click Add Scripts tab. Add your scripts (*.CMD files). Added files will be placed to BootDisk_Scripts root folder. At boot time all *.CMD files located in this folder will be executed.
   4. To specify addtitional boot options, click Boot Settings tab. You can change default settings to be used: Time Zone, Additional Language Support, Network Support and Autostart Delay. The same options you can change later on at the boot time on Active@ Boot Disk initialization screen.
4. Click Next. Verify the Selected Media, Sizes and Bootup Environment.
5. Click Create. A progress bar appears while media is being prepared.

	USB Drive or blank CD/DVD must be inserted and choosen explicitly on the first step, before you can proceed to the next step.
	When you prepare USB Flash Drive bootable media, it will be re-formatted, thus all data residing on the media will be erased. You will have a choice of NTFS or FAT32 file system to be placed on USB. We recommend you to use FA32 for smaller volumes and NTFS for larger media size, it supports large volumes (>32GB) and file sizes (>2GB).
	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 to a disk.