FalconFour\'s Ultimate Boot CD/USB 2.0 - Hiren

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F A L C O N F O U R P R O U D L Y P R E S E N T S |

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T I T L E | FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD v2.0 | D A T E | Aug 14, 2009 |

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D E S C R I P T I O N |

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In this boot CD are the most popular and useful tools anyone would ever need. The

best of the free software, the best of the commercial software, and it all fits on

one CD-R that's readable by any computer worth booting on. Not everything can read

a DVD, and USB booting is hit and miss at best.



This is the Ultimate Boot CD that I've used myself, and all the combined tools I

use for PC diagnostics at the shop I work at. It's been part of my toolbox for

years.With the release of Hiren's BootCD 9.7, the entire playing field has been

shifted, with the new MiniXP boot functionality. It's a 30mb image that loads and

decompresses into RAM, then boots Windows off RAM at lightning speed - including

reading to RAM, it appears to boot even faster than off a hard drive... and still

gives you network (and internet) functionality on many PCs. Many drivers for net

and SATA are built right in, but you can load anything with the F6 driver prompt

during startup.



Hiren's XP BootCD is an extremely useful diagnostic tool, and is at the heart of

this BootCD. However, several techs (myself included) have found issues with the

lack of easy access to the multitude of tools on the disc, so I modified the disk

image to add shortcuts to many popular applications right on the desktop, and

added a shiny wallpaper :P . More applications can be found by browsing the CD's

"PROGRAMS" folder.



Many techs use ERD Commander, which (after the Microsoft acquisition) is now

known as Microsoft DaRT - the Diagnostic and Recovery Toolkit. It's a considerably

smaller (than Hiren/UBCD4Win) set of extremely useful and specialized tools to

repair Windows. I've repackaged the XP version into a lightning-fast-booting

compressed RAM disk, and added DaRT 6.0 for Windows Vista. Both versions include

tools like Offline System Restore, System File Checker, and Crash Analyzer.



If you work in a tech shop, you know the pain of user passwords. The typical order

of business would be to use NTPWEdit to erase the login passwords (replaces Active

Password Changer). However, Kon-Boot actually patches the Windows kernel in RAM

during startup, causing it to ignore an incorrect password at login! You can log in

without entering the user's password, perform your tech duties, shut the system off,

and their password stays intact. It's still an experimental tool, and often fails to

start on many computers, but it's a great new tool that makes a valuable addition to

a tech toolkit.



Once you dive into this disc, you'll never need another boot CD.



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O N T H E D I S C |

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Hiren's XP 9.9 + MyDefrag 4.0 w/ FalconFour's FullOptimize script, fix_hdc, HD Tune

Pro, desktop icons, Taskmgr as task manager

Misc apps: Active File Recovery, Keyfinder, Victoria for Windows, windirstat,

ImgBurn 2.5

Hiren's DOS 9.9 + SpinRite 6.0 (under Hard Disk Tools)

ERD Commander / Microsoft DaRT 5.0 (WinXP)

MS DaRT 6.0 (Vista)

Dell MBR Recovery Disk

Memtest86+ 2.11

Kon-Boot 1.1

Windows Recovery Console