Hirens BootCD is a completely free bootable CD that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations like analyzing, recovering and fixing your computer even if the primary operating system can not be booted. It is a great resource for anyone with computer problems who is having trouble accessing the internet to download programs in an attempt to fix it. It has a multitude of tools divided into a number of categories like partitioning tools, backup, recovery and BIOS/CMOS tools to name a few. With some simple knowledge about what is contained on the CD, you can use it to repair many problems computer like hard drive failure, virus infections, partitioning, password recovery and data recovery. Hiren’s BootCD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UIs differences and options in what they can do.

Restored utilities:

Acronis Disk Director 11 Home (11.0.2121)

Acronis True Image Home 2011 Full Version Plus Pack (build 6.597)

Active Partition Recovery (3.0)

Active Password Changer (3.0.420)

Active Undelete (5.5)

Drive Image (5.6)

ERD Explorer

GetDataBack for FAT/NTFS (4.0)

HDD Regenerator (1.71)

NTFS Pro

Norton Ghost 11.5.1

Norton PartitionMagic Pro Server (8.05)

PC-Check (6.21)

Paragon Partition Manager (7.0.1274)

Paragon Mount Everything (3.0)

Symantec ImageCenter (5.6)


Other included utilities:

– SysRescueCD 2.0.0. Linux rescue CD. (Removed RipLinux)

A live linux Gentoo based rescue CD.

It includes many tools for rescuing and managing

linux and windows systems. Hundreds of utilities.

e.g. Clam antivirus, Gparted, ntfs-3g, Mozilla Firefox,

wifi access, syslinux, telnet, ssh, …


Applications:

– Avast Registry Editor

– Easeus Partition Master (6.5.2)

– GetData Recover My Files Pro (4.6.8.933)

– Ghost Image Explorer

– Ghost Cast Server

– HWiNFO (3.65)

– Outlook Express Backup (6.5)

– WinRar (4.00)

– Notepad++ (now part of the official cd)

– Sumatra. (Light PDF reader) (now part of the official cd)