Nowadays most peoples’ lives revolve around their computers; and when a computer disaster strikes, it can be very devastating. Thus it is always handy to have tools ready to help you recover from a computer crash. Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 is one such tool.

Here is what Wondershare claims LiveBoot 2012 can do:

Quick Overview

Rapidly Rescue You from Any Imaginable PC Crash Disaster with a Boot CD

• Boot up any computer with a boot disk
• Rescue data from crashed or damaged computer
• Partition, format, clone, and deep wipe hard drive
• Rescue crashed Windows and hard drive
• Install Windows easily
• Reset Windows user/admin password

Features In Detail

Main Functions of Boot CD for Windows

Windows Recovery – This boot disc provides a complete solution set for all Windows crash and booting problems including booting failure, virus infection, blue/black screen, and more.

Data Recovery – This bootable disk can rescue any data from your internal/externall hard disk or partitions no matter deleted, formatted, or whole disk corrupted, including documents, archives, emails, photos, videos, and audio files.

Disk Management – This DOS boot disk offers complete disk management solutions including partition management, disk/partition cloning, disk/partition wipe, and more.

Password & Key Finder – This boot CD for Windows can help to reset Windows password when you forget the login password and find Windows or Office product key when you want to reinstall them.

Boot up any computer

• Boot up any desktop or laptop when you cannot enter Windows, your computer crashes, or you want to work under boot environment.
• Boot up computer by inserting boot CD to your CD drive or plugging in USB drive, and restarting your computer.
• Latest WinPE 3.0 technology – 100% hardware compatibility.

Rapidly rescue crashed computer or hard drive

• Boot up computer if it is infected by virus.
• Fast recovery from crashes such as bluescreen and blackscreen.
• Fix booting problems, random crashes and missing file crashes such as ‘ntldr is missing’, ‘bootmgr is missing’, etc.
• Repair partition table, corrupted registry, virus-infected registry key value, and crashed MBR even it is infected by virus.
• 1-click system file recovery.
• Rescue Windows 98/ME/2K/HOME/2003/XP/NT/Vista and Windows 7.

Rescue data from crashed computer or hard drive

• Transfer files (photo, music, document, etc.) to external storage devices if your computer or hard drive is badly damaged or cannot be restored.
• Rescue files from formatted or crashed hard drive.
• Rescue files from crashed Windows.

Wipe entire hard drive or partition

• Deep wipe the entire hard drive or partition with 1-click. It can be used for the below purposes.
• Give you a fresh start when you want to reinstall Windows.
• Kill virus when your computer is affected with boot sector virus.
• Speed up hard drive when you want to clean an old hard drive.
• Prevent your data and files from recovering by data recovery software when you want to donate your computer.

Backup and restore file & system

• Backup and restore your file/folder, partition, disk or entire hard drive at any moment.
• Backup file to various storage devices such as USB, internal hard drive, CD, DVD, ZIP, FireWire, etc.
• Back up large volume data in minutes.

Partition, format and clean your disk

• Provide perfect partition management – creating, deleting, activating, resizing, merging, splitting, converting, formatting, hiding, etc.
• Flexible enough for you to clone a partition or entire hard drive to an internal disk or external disk as you like.
• Recover MBR (Master Boot Record), rebuild the lost partition table, and surface scan to check for bad sectors.
• Deep clean entire hard drive or partition with 1-click.

Clone entire hard drive and partition

• Clone entire hard drive or partitions to an internal or external disk.
• The cloned hard drive will be bootable.
• Support all Windows version, IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, FireWire, and more.

DOS Command Environment

This DOS boot disk provides MS-DOS command environment with all major DOS commands such as chkdsk, debug, fdisk, DiskCopy, Scandisk, etc.

Recover your Windows CD key

Retrieve Windows product key with 1-click from crashed or good computer.

Typically Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 would cost $59.95 per license. However, for limited time (giveaway ends on August 12, 2011 at 10:00 GMT) everyone can get Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 for free!

To get Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 for free, fill out the short form on the promotion page and check your e-mail inbox; you will receive an e-mail with registration information. Then download Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 and register it with the registration information you received.

Promotion page: http://www.wondershare.com/topic/giveaway-liveboot2012.html

Download link: http://download.wondershare.com/liveboot-downloader.exe

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