A free bootable CD that contains a multitude of tools for analyzing, recovering, and fixing your computer even if its operating system does not start.
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- Free Personal
- Proprietary
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Direction & Direction Lite AlternativesFile & Hard Disk Recovery Tools like Direction & Direction Lite
Direction & Direction Lite is described as 'This is an alternative to Falcon 4's Ultimate Boot CD and a alternative to Legacy GeGeek Toolkit. This has over 100+ Tools and over 3+ Bootable OSs' and is a File Recovery tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Direction & Direction Lite for Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted, Mac and Apple TV. The best Direction & Direction Lite alternative is Hiren’s BootCD. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Hiren’s BootCD or MediCat USB. Other great apps like Direction & Direction Lite are SystemRescue, DiskGenius, Ultimate Boot CD and All in One – System Rescue Toolkit.
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- 25 Hiren’s BootCD alternatives
14 MediCat USB alternativesA highly-customizable multiboot USB stick for modern PC Repair. Supports both Legacy BIOS and UEFI. Based on Ventoy.
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32 Hiren’s BootCD PE alternativesHiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a restored edition of Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64. PE version is being developed by Hiren’s BootCD fans. it supports UEFI booting and requires minimum 2 GB RAM.
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29 SystemRescue alternativesSystemRescue is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
181 DiskGenius alternativesDiskGenius is full-featured partition manager. It also lets you edit UEFI entries with ease, so if you want to install a different bootloader like Clover, DiskGenius can help set it up quickly.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Apple TV
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15 Ultimate Boot CD alternativesLive/Bootable CD with network support containing tools for file and system recovery, virus scans and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
- Linux
This utility disc is designed to quickly and efficiently aid a technician with troubleshooting and repairing Windows based PCs.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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94 Knoppix alternativesKnoppix is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD (Live CD) or a USB key (Live USB), one of the first of its kind for any operating system. When starting a program, it is loaded from the removable medium and decompressed into a RAM drive.
17 Rescatux alternativesRescatux is a GNU/Linux rescue cd (and eventually also Windows) but it is not like other rescue disks. Rescatux comes with Rescapp. Rescapp is a nice wizard that will guide you through your rescue tasks.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Hoek’s Tools is a vast collection of portable utilities for the management, diagnosis and repairing of computer problems, recover lost or deleted files or cracking passwords. There are literally hundreds of utilities.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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- 25 USB/DVD DLC Boot 2019 alternatives
DLC Boot 2019 is a rescue disk that is used as a Recovery CD. The point is that if you are having problems such as Windows can not boot, missing MBR, want to format the hard drive, remove viruses and so on, you can simply use the DLC Boot 2019 to resolve the issue.
Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Windows
- Linux
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