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Hiren's BootCD (HBCD) is a  bootable CD that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations like analyzing, recovering and fixing your computer even if the primary operating system can not be booted.

It is a great resource for anyone with computer problems who is having trouble accessing the internet to download programs in an attempt to fix it. It has a multitude of tools divided into a number of categories like partitioning tools, backup, recovery and BIOS/CMOS tools to name a few.

With some simple knowledge about what is contained on the CD, you can use it to repair many problems computer like hard drive failure, virus infections, partitioning, password recovery and data recovery. 

We may call it as an emergency cd which every computer technician or home user must have.

Tools :

Avira AntiVir Personal (07-11-2010)
 Free anti-virus and anti-spyware on-demand scanner, detects and removes more than 50000 viruses.
ComboFix (07-11-2010)
 Designed to cleanup malware infections and restore settings modified by malware.
CWShredder 2.19
 Popular CoolWebSearch Trojan Remover tool.
Dr.Web CureIt! Antivirus (07-11-2010)
 a free standalone anti-virus and anti-spyware on-demand scanner.
GMER 1.0.15
 Hidden services, hidden registry, hidden file scanner, Rootkit Detector and Remover.
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.46 (07-11-2010)
 anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware.
Remove Fake Antivirus 1.68
 a tool to remove virus/malwares which disguises itself to be an antivirus and produces fake alert/warnings and urge you to purchase a useless copy of the fake antivirus.
RootkitRevealer 1.7.1
 Rootkit Revealer is an advanced patent-pending root kit detection utility.
SmitFraudFix 2.424
 This removes Some of the popular Desktop Hijack malware.
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (07-11-2010)
 Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software.
SpywareBlaster 4.4 (07-11-2010)
 Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
SuperAntispyware 4.45.1000 (07-11-2010)
 Remove Malware, Rootkits, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Parasites (a must have tool).
Archivers
7-Zip 9.18b
 File archiver with a high compression ratio Supports 7z, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, FAT, GZ, GZIP, HFS, IMA, IMG, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, TAR, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, XZ, ZIP and Z formats.
EasyUHA 1.1
 GUI Tool to create and extract UHA Archives.
Backup Tools
COPYR.DMA Build013
 A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors.
CopyWipe 1.14
 Copy old hard drive to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive to another, CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive.
Double Driver 3.0
 Driver Backup and Restore tool.
DriveImage XML 2.14
 backup any drive/partition to an image file, even if the drive is currently in use, a very good freeware alternative to Ghost / Acronis
DriverBackup! 1.0.3
 Another handy tool to backup drivers.
Drive SnapShot 1.40
 creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.
FastCopy 2.04
 The Fastest Copy/Delete Software on Windows.
G4L Ghost 4 Linux 0.34a
 a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost.
GImageX 2.0.17
 ImageX is used to backup/restore WIM images for Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7.
ImgBurn 2.5.2.0
 Lightweight CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray burning application, supports BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI, Ability to build DVD/HD/BD Video discs from a VIDEO_TS/HVDVD_TS/BDAV/BDMV folder, Unicode folder/file names (formerly DVD Decrypter).
InfraRecorder 0.51
 An Open source CD/DVD burning software, also create/burn .iso images.
Partition Image - PartImage 0.6.9
 supported filesystem includes Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, HFS, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, Fat16, Fat32 and NTFS.