Hiren's boot CD
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Hiren's Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. It is a Bootable CD; thus, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UI differences. The current version of the CD is 8.9.
[edit] Legality
See the Warez and Copyright infringement of software articles.
Even though Hiren's Boot CD contains free software and abandonware, which are still copyrighted, from the DOS era, it should be noted that there are also a significant number of unlicensed proprietary software on Hiren's Boot CD; therefore, Hiren's Boot CD is considered warez. This makes the entire disc illegal in most jurisdictions. Hiren no longer offers a download link to the disc image.
[edit] See also
Rescue and repair Live distros
[edit] External links
- Hiren's Boot CD Home Page - a list of the software included on the boot CD.
- Ultimate Boot CD - a freeware boot CD for personal use.
