[Does Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 really contain all its claimed utilities?]

Hi Ghobar,

 

I don't think Hirens is really meant for that sort of use i.e. running the tools as standalone, sure you can do it for some but the idea is you download it and burn/copy it to a bootable CD or USB.  You then boot your computer using Hirens instead of the OS on your hard drive, where you are given a menu (essentially a boot menu for multiple OS's) where you can make selections on what to run.

 

It's like a live CD with a choice of environments to start up into and depending on what you choose you can then run some of the utilities (but only the ones pertaining to the environment you selected).  The difference here between a normal live CD and this is that Hirens is designed to be able to access the HDD with your regular OS on it for maintenance/troubleshooting etc, it's not really designed as a checkout this OS type thing like a live CD is.

 

Hello Noesis,

thank you.

 

Do you have any idea about the problem in the first post?

[Does Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 really contain all its claimed utilities?]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2142380/run-dos-programs-in-a-current-version-of-windows.html

 

to do their task, some utilities should run in boot not in windows.

[Does Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 really contain all its claimed utilities?]

No I don't, I would just use them as standalone.

 

Many of the utilities in http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd are not for windows but for DOS, for example Maxtor Amset 4.0. How do you use "Freeware MSDOS" tools as stanalone?

[Does Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 really contain all its claimed utilities?]

perhaps they only put the most used ones on disc but make the others available for download.

 

I already knew what you linked. Maybe you are right in saying that "perhaps they only put the most used ones on disc but make the others available for download". I did guess so. But they have claimed that "All in one Bootable CD which has all these utilities". Maybe it is not true! Anyway....

 

 

Something about the utilities after download: Do you know how they should be integrated to hiren's boot cd?

[Does Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 really contain all its claimed utilities?]

http://www.hiren.info/downloads/freeware-tools/maxtor-amset-utility

 

Your reply does not answer the question I posed, because by "where are all these utilities?" I meant "where inside the HBCD15.2 which I downloaded from the hiren official site", not "where on the internet".

[Does Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 really contain all its claimed utilities?]

Hello

 

From http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ I have downloaded HBCD15.2 which is 592.5 MB. At the beginning of "HBCD.txt" it has said...All in one Bootable CD which has all these utilities. Also in http://www.hirensbootcd.org/hbcd-v152/ we see this list.

 

But it is not the case that all the utilities listed in "HBCD.txt" and in http://www.hirensbootcd.org/hbcd-v152/ are present; only some of them are there. For example, let me discuss Hard Disk Tools. When I boot to HBCD, I go to Dos Programs>Hard Disk Tools.... There are three pages of hard disk tools. But there is no "Maxtor amset utility 4.0" in these three pages, although it is mentioned in the list of utilities. 

 

So where are "all these utilities"?

 

Do you know the answer to this question?

 

Regards

Ghobar