Hiren's Boot CD Restored Edition
Hiren's Boot CD also known as HBCD is a Live Boot CD.
There are 2 primary types floating around.
- The fully legal version
- The bootleg version containing commercial software
Hirens’ Boot DVD 15.2 Restored Edition V 2.0 (After May 2012) is an example of #2, the bootleg variety. 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.
Hiren’s Boot CD contains an impressive collection of computer diagnostics software as well as various repair tools, and utilities. There are more than a hundred computer diagnostics and repair tools in Hiren’s BootCD. It can even be used to clone a hard disk.
Hiren's BootCD, created by "Hiren" & "Pankaj", is based on Knoppix and a collection of other freeware tools. Prior to version 11.0, Hiren's BootCD contained a significant number of commercial products. In version 10.6,[4] no fewer than 17 were listed in the release notes. Most notably Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost, Acronis Disk Director, and Paragon Partition Manager. (Partition Magic Pro had been replaced already in version 10.5.) To be able to start a commercial application, the user had to promise to be the holder of a license.
Hiren's Boot DVD 15.2 Restored Edition
Restored DOS Menu utilities
- Acronis Backup & Recovery, UR 11.5 (build 32308)
- Acronis Disk Director 11.0 Advanced (build 12077)
- Acronis True Image 2013 (build 5587)
- Active Partition Recovery 3.0
- Active Password Changer 4.0
- Active Undelete 5.5
- DiskGenius 3.5.0 Professional
- GetDataBack for FAT / NTFS 4.0
- Image For Dos 2.77
- HDD Regenerator 2011
- NTFS DOS Pro
- Norton Ghost 11.5.1
- Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 (10.1.19.1640)
- Paragon Mount Everything 3.0
- PC-Check 6.21
- Synantec ImageCenter 5.6
Self booting utilities
- Acronis [3]
+ Backup & Recovery 11.5 (build 32308) + Disk Director 11.0 Advanced (build 12077) + True Image 2013 (build 5587)
- Active Boot Disk 6.5.0
- BootIt Bare Metal 1.85
- Clonzilla 2.0.1-15
- Eassos PartitionGuru / Disk Genius 3.5.0 Pro & 4.2.0 Free
- EaseUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Server
- GParted 0.14.0
- Hardware Detection Tool (HDT) 0.5.0.
- HDAT2 (HD Diagnostics & Testing) 4.9.2
- HDClone Professional Edition 4.1.4
- Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.0.31.4, Updated 4-Dec-2012
- KonBoot version 2.
- Macrium Reflect Professional 64 bit 5.0 4354
- OneKey Ghost 6.5
- Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 (10.1.19.1640)
- Plop Boot Manager 5.0.14 (20.12.2012)
- Parted Magic Linux 2012_12_25. Modified to boot in systems with non PAE CPUs.
- QuickTech Pro SB 5.90.00 Hardware diagnostics and stress test.
- R-Drive 4.7 (4726)
- Spinrite 6
- Super Grub2 Disk Version 2.
Version Availability
- Hiren's BootCD Official (legal version)
- The Bootleg Version is available on P2P and other sources.
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! Warning !
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