Ever heard of hiren’s boot CD or shortly HBCD? well some of you may say yes. so whats its use? Ii got so many uses for a person who own a laptop or a personal computer at home. HBCD gives a lot of testing and recovery options for you. Some times you may got into a situation where “oh my god where is my partition gone!!”. well there are so many software available to recover the lost data, though, we have a mini XP running with so many goodies that may save your data. Technically speaking HBCD is an OS .. specifically a recovery OS.
Latest version of HBCD available is 15.2 and you can get it from their official site here
Features of HBCD:
1. Password Retrieving
There are so many scenarios in which you may forget you account password for your windows pc or laptop. Hiren’s gives you a chance to wipe the password out of it.
So that you could log in again and set a new password for your system. This works till windows 7 since Microsoft has added UEFI secured booting support in windows 8 & 8.1. But developers are trying to fix this issue since password retrieval is important for users.
2. Bad Sector Fix
HBCD gives you the option to run bad sector removal in your HDD even without entering into OS. i,e. it runs on dos shell. Some bad sectors are so bad that even the system can’t boot up .. Windows have inbuilt bad sector fixing technology . But what if you are not able to boot up. So HBCD either running on CD or thumb can fix this problem
3. S.M.A.R.T Error Check
Most of you , at least once should have face this error in start up.This is a error that i personally don’t like. Its regarding the Hard disk.. Its when your HDD’s firmware goes wrong.S.M.A.R.T stands for self monitoring and reporting technology. Hard disk become unusable , in most cases, when it affects with a smart error. This is so fatal and after windows 7, since windows introduced fast boot , to check SMART we need HBCD.
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