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Hiren's Boot CD Review

Review of Hiren's Boot CD powered by the Slant community.

All in One Bootable CD covering all maintenance purposes, most importantly rescue disc purposes.

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What are the best system rescue discs for Windows?

Pros

Izem Lavrenti

Pro
Completely free

Hiren's boot CD is completely free, always has been and always will be.

Izem Lavrenti

Pro
Extremely popular

Hiren's Boot CD is very popular. Anyone who has ever worked in support or system administration probably has used it at least once.

Because of this, it's extremely easy to find guides and tutorials on how to use it, or if a tutorial does not explain everything, chances are that you can find someone to help you with it.

Cons

Kristaps
jasonjons

Con
Trash, outdated

Only people who use this are old-school fanboys. Get with the times.

Kristaps
CaringLachesis

Con
An oldie, no EFI support

Izem Lavrenti

Con
Not cross-platform

This rescue disc is for Windows systems only.

thermoplastics

Con
Has not been updated in years

The last release was in 2012, which is quite old at this point.

Commonly Compared

Hiren's Boot CD
vs
System Rescue CD
2 Recommendations
Bob.Omb's Modified Win10PEx64
2 Recommendations
The Trinity Rescue Kit
1 Recommendations
 

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