Hiren's boot CD

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Hiren's Boot CD is a bootable 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. Many of these tools are warez. As it is a bootable CD 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 different UI's and options in what they can do. The current version of the CD is 9.5.

[edit] Legality

Even though Hiren's Boot CD contains free software and abandonware, which are still copyrighted, from the DOS era, it also contains a significant amount of unlicensed proprietary software; 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.