Hiren's boot CD

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Hiren's Boot CD is a boot CD containing various MSDOS programs for fixing various problems with computers, such as partition agents, system performance testing programs, disk cloners, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others. It is a Bootable CD thus can be useful even if you can not boot to the installed operating system, Hiren's BootCD has an extensive list of software. Many utilities are in basis duplicates of other utilities included on the CD, however, they may be of use because of the UI differences. The current version of the CD is 8.6.

[edit] Legality

See the warez and Software Piracy articles.

Even though Hiren's Boot CD contains a lot of free software and abandonware (which are still copyrighted) from the DOS era, it should be noted that there are items on Hiren's boot CD which are unlicensed proprietary software, and Hiren's Boot CD is thus illegal warez. This makes the entire disc illegal in most juristicions.

[edit] External links

• Hiren's Boot CD Home Page - notice it is only a list of the software included on the boot CD.
• A similar boot cd that only contains freeware