Hiren's Boot CD is a vast collection of bootable and portable utilities for
the management, diagnosis and repair of computer problems, recover lost or
deleted files or cracking passwords. In addition, HBCD provides a means to
take control of any computer and communicate with other computers, surf the
internet, write documents or programs, without booting the installed operating
system. There are literally hundreds of utilities and it is advised that you
explore the contents before the need for it arises. Hiren's Boot CD can be
used in two ways:
As a boot CD to take control of the computer without starting the installed
operating system so that we can do repairs or clone the main disk, recover
files, test the memory and hardware, clean severe viral infections, et.c.
To do any of these simply boot the computer from the CD and select
a utility from the menu. Options include 3 Mini Windows environments (98,
XP and 7) and a couple of Linux rescue environments.
As a collection of portable repair and diagnostic utilities which can be
run from within Windows without installation. To do this insert the CD
when Windows is running and select a utility from the HBCD Program Launcher
menu. If the CD does not autorun you may start the menu by running
HBCDMenu.cmd. When the operating system not functional or unavailable the
portable utilities may be still be used if we boot a Mini Windows
environment included in the CD. (3rd option of the main boot menu).
For example Norton Ghost can be started in three ways:
Boot the CD, select "Dos Programs" and then "Norton Ghost".
(useful if we wish to clone or restore the main hard disk
and there is not enough memory to boot Mini Windows XP).
Boot the CD, select "Mini Windows XP" and then select Ghost
from the HBCD Program Launcher menu.
Boot to your windows operating system, insert the CD and
select Ghost from the HBCD Program Launcher menu.
This Restored DVD includes all the utilities found in the original
Hiren's Boot CD 15.1 (December 2011). [1]
It is called Restored because it contains all the commercial utilities
omitted from the official releases (since version 11.0.)
It also includes other tools such by Acronis, Paragon, Active, and other
useful software fully integrated within Hiren's menus.
Below are listed only the additional programmes and utilities
found in this DVD. The numbers in square brackets [] are referring
to the URLs listed at the bottom of this file.
For the complete list of utilities in the official Hiren's
Boot CD, read the files HBCD.txt and changes.txt, or visit [1].
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Restored DOS Menu utilities
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These are found within the HBCD DOS menu. These utilities were included in
the official but were left out since HBCD version 11.
Acronis [4]
-- True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack (build 6.131).
-- Disk Director 11 Advanced (build 11.0.12077).
-- Backup & Recovery 11 Server (built 11.0.17217).
Active Boot Disk 5.4.5 [6]
With the option to boot either in a DOS or Win7 environment. Contains
tools to image disks, data recovery, partition management, password
resetting, data erasure, network access and other system utilities.
Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.0.29.6, updated 27-12-2011 [5]
Mini Windows 7.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2011 10.0.15 [8]
QuickTech Pro 5.8. Hardware diagnostics and stress test. [9]
R-Drive 4.7 (4726)
Spinrite 6
SysRescueCD 2.4.1 (December 2011). [2]
A live Linux Gentoo based rescue CD (choice of 32 or 64 bit). It includes
many tools for rescuing and managing Linux and windows systems. Hundreds
of utilities. e.g. Clam antivirus, Gparted, ntfs-3g, wifi access,
syslinux, telnet, ssh, PXE boot, Firefox, vim, MC...
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Added to HBCDMenu program launcher
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AIDA64 Extreme Edition 1.85.1600 [15]
Acronis Disk Director 11 Home (build 11.0.2121).
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack (build 6942).
Atlantis Word Processor Pro 1.6.5.5 [10]
Avast Registry Editor
Calculator (Micro$oft calc.exe is very good why not have it in MiniXP?)
Norton Ghost 11.5.1, Ghost Cast Server, Ghost Image Explorer
Outlook Express Backup 6.5
Partition Wizard Professional 6.0
Passware Kit Enterprise 10.3.2585 (Crack any password). [7]
PowerCmd 1.9 [11].
UltraISO Premium 9.3.6.2766 [17]
WXHexEditor 0.11 (Hex editor. Can handle Terabyte files/disks). [18]
WinNTSetup 2.1
Install Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/2003/2008 anywhere, fast,
integrate drivers, include customizations.
WinRar 4.01
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Kudos and thanks to DimTam for his suggestions and testing
and to Ha Cahn Son for his suggestions and scripts.
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Note on virus alerts.
Compressed files such as Nirsoft.7z and Mix.7z contain utilities
such as password scanners, ip sniffers, registry scanners etc., are known to
raise erroneous virus alerts. Although these pose no real threat, if you are
concerned about this, you may delete them from the DVD/USB but you will have
reduced functionality.
See also: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/faq/
