Hirens' Boot DVD 15.1 Restored Edition V 2.0

Description

 

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. There is no computer problem for which HBCD does not have at least one tool to help with its solution. In addition, HBCD provides the 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 Linux rescue environment.

* 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.

Acronis similarly:

* Can be booted from HBCD Dos menu.

* Can be Booted directly from main menu.

* Run from Mini XP or Mini windows 7.

* Run from installed Windows XP/Vista/7.

This Restored DVD includes all the utilities found in the latest Hiren's Boot CD 15.1 (December 2011). [1] Many utilities have been updated because it is 6 months since the last HBCD release. 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. In addition it now includes the option to add tools such as Backtrack or Geek Squad's MRI (Detailed instructions included). 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].

Restored DOS Menu utilities

These are found within the HBCD DOS menu. These utilities were included inthe official but were left out since HBCD version 11.

* Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.0 (build 17437)

* Acronis Disk Director 11.0 Advanced (build 12077)

* Acronis True Image 2012 (build 7119)

* Active Partition Recovery 3.0

* Active Password Changer 3.0.420

* Active Undelete 5.5

* DiskGenius 3.3.0525 Proffesional

* Drive Image 5.6

* GetDataBack for FAT/NTFS 4.0

* HDD Regenerator 2011

* NTFS DOS Pro

* Norton Ghost 11.5.1

* Norton PartitionMagic Pro Server 8.05

* PC-Check 6.21

* Paragon Partition Manager 12.0.19.15177

* Paragon Mount Everything 3.0

* Synantec ImageCenter 5.6

Self booting utilities

* Acronis [4]

-- Backup & Recovery 11.0 (build 17437)

-- Disk Director 11.0 Advanced (build 12077)

-- True Image 2012 (build 7119)

* Active Boot Disk 5.5.2 [6]

* BootIt Bare Metal 1.07 [12]

* Clonzilla 1.2.12-37 [13]

* DiskGenius 3.3.0525 Proffesional

* Eassos PartitionGuru 3.8.0 [14]

* GParted 0.12.1

* Hardware Detection Tool 0.5.0.

* Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.0.31.4, Updated 20-05-2012 [5]

* Macrium Reflect Professional 64 bit 5.0 4354

* Mini Windows 7 (Improved and Updated Drivers)

* OneKey Ghost 6.5

* Paragon Partition Manager 12.0.19.15177 [8]

* Plop Boot Manager 5.0.14 (31.01.2012)

* Parted Magic Linux 2012_05_14

* QuickTech Pro SB 5.90.00 Hardware diagnostics and stress test. [9]

* R-Drive 4.7 (4726)

* Spinrite 6

Optional self booting utilities For the following packages there are menu entries, but you need to download and include the iso images yourself. Detailed instructions are included

as to how to do this. Read document 'add-optional-utils.pdf'.

* SysRescueCD [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, vim, mc, etc., and most important: PXE network booting.

* BackTrack

An Ubuntu based Linux live CD for digital forensics and penetration (sic) testing. It includes many well known security (or hacking) tools, e.g. Aircrack, Ophcrack, Gerix Wifi Cracker, disassemblers, sniffers, etc., as well as commonplace applications such as browsers, file managers, editors, torrent clients, etc.

* Tails

A privacy oriented linux live CD. It contains everything one needs (browsers, messaging, e-mail, office, etc.) preconfigured with security in mind. Tail internet connectivity relies on the Torr anonymity network to protect privacy. Thus internet connections cannot be traced back. It also leaves no trace on the computer it uses.

* MRI

Geek Squad's diagnostics and repair disk it is not free software. I find it cumbersome and slow whilst not offering anything more than the tools we already have on HBCD. Some people, however, want to integrate it with HBCD.

Added to HBCDMenu program launcher

* AIDA64 Extreme Edition 1.85.1600 [15]

* Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.0 (build 17437)

* Acronis Disk Director 11.0 Advanced (build 12077)

* Acronis True Image 2012 (build 7119)

* Active Password changer professional 4.0

* Atlantis Word Processor Pro 1.6.5.5 [10]

* Avast Antivirus 1.0.3 updatable (updated 07-05-2012)

* Avast Registry Editor

* Calculator (Micro$oft calc.exe is very good why not have it in MiniXP?)

* CardRecovery 5.30.1206 [16]

* DSynchronize (Drive/directory synchronizer) 2.30.2

* DTaskManager (Powerfull process control) 1.51.

* Data Recovery Wizard Pro 5.5.1

* GetDataBack NTFS & FAT 4.22

* HDClone Professional 13 (10600)

* HWiNFO 3.65

* Isobuster 2.8.5 (free edition)

* MalwareBytes 1.60.1.100 (updatable)

* MiniTool Power Data Recovery 6.6

* Norton Ghost 11.5.1, Ghost Cast Server, Ghost Image Explorer

* Outlook Express Backup 6.5

* Eassos PartitionGuru 3.8.0 [14]

* Paragon Partition Manager server 14.04.10.9887 [8]

* Partition Wizard Server edition 7.1

* Passware Kit Enterprise 10.3.2585 (Crack any password). [7]

* PowerCmd 1.9 [11].

* PSPR 6.3.1 (Proactive System Password Recovery) [20]

* Raid Reconstructor 4.25 [21]

* SkyIAR 0.5 Install ACHI/SATA/IDE controller drivers. [19]

* UltraISO Premium 9.3.6.2766 [17]

* WXHexEditor 0.11 (Hex editor. Can handle Terabyte files/disks). [18]

* WinNTSetup 2.2

Install Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/2003/2008 anywhere, fast,

integrate drivers, include customizations.

* WinRar 4.01

Important Notes

* For keyboards other than English you can still apply Hiren's keyboard patch.

* For installation to USB read document 'usb-installation.pdf'.

* To extend HBCD by adding tools such as the distro BackTrack, read document 'add-optional-utils.pdf'.

* To reduce the size of the DVD to CD or to fit in a smaller GB USB stick read file 'trim-dvd.txt'

* Read document 'install-win-with-hbcd.pdf' for a guide for how to install windows from USB.

* Mini Windows XP and Mini Windows 7 run from RAM. If you start one program after another you will soon run out of memory. So clean the temp folder from time to time. A command for this is provided in the Program Launcher.

* Mini Windows 7 is somewhat slow to start up because it loads some drivers. So be patient and give it time. Also it now has the same desktop background as Mini XP so do not be confused.

* The HBCD program launcher and some of the portable utilities are incompatible with 64 bit Windows 7. Use only within 32 bit installed Windows, else you can boot Mini Windows from DVD and use them from there. Kudos and thanks to DimTam and to Ha Cahn Son for their suggestions, testing and scripts. Also thanks to http://bbs.wuyou.com/ for the Acronis (ABR, ADD and ATIH) portables.

Proteus. May 2012

References:

[1] http://www.hirensbootcd.org/hbcd-v151

[2] http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list

[4] http://www.acronis.com

[5] http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk

[6] http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm

[7] http://www.lostpassword.com/kit-enterprise.htm

[8] http://www.paragon-software.com/business/hdm-professional/

[9] http://www.uxd.com/qtpro.shtml

[10] http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/

[11] http://www.powercmd.com/

[12] http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal.htm

[13] http://clonezilla.org/

[14] http://www.partitionguru.com/

[15] http://www.aida64.com/

[16] http://www.cardrecovery.com/

[17] http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/

[18] http://www.hexeditor.eu/

[19] http://sky123.org

[20] http://www.elcomsoft.com/pspr.html

[21] http://www.runtime.org

Screenshots

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http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4311/winntsetup.png

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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. Note also that nothing is installed on the host machine (i.e. your computer). Finally, this DVD is aimed for the expert user, and it contains utilities which, if misused, can do far more damage than any trojan, worm or virus, and hose your computer with just a few clicks.