Hiren's boot CD

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latest release date = release date|2008|10|2
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website = [http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd]

Hiren's Boot CD is a live 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. 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.

Legality

There are many freeware and abandonware applications included on the boot CD, however the CD also includes multiple pirated copywritten programs from companies such as Symantec and Acronis to name a few.

Due to the inclusion of pirated copyrighted works, Hiren's Boot CD is legally considered "warez" and pirated intellectual property, downloading and/or possessing the CD has various legal implications according to the persons global location such as violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the USA.

ee also

* Rescue and repair Live distros
* BartPE
* VistaPE
* Reatogo-X-PE

External links

* [http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd Hiren's Boot CD Home Page] - a list of the software included on the boot CD.