A highly-customizable multiboot USB stick for modern PC Repair. Supports both Legacy BIOS and UEFI. Based on Ventoy.




There are many alternatives to Hiren’s BootCD for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is MediCat USB, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Hiren’s BootCD and 12 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Hiren’s BootCD are Hiren’s BootCD PE, SystemRescue, Ultimate Boot CD and All in One – System Rescue Toolkit.
A highly-customizable multiboot USB stick for modern PC Repair. Supports both Legacy BIOS and UEFI. Based on Ventoy.




Hiren’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.




SystemRescue is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.



Live/Bootable CD with network support containing tools for file and system recovery, virus scans and more.

This utility disc is designed to quickly and efficiently aid a technician with troubleshooting and repairing Windows based PCs.




ALT Linux is a set of RPM-based, APT-managed operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel and Sisyphus package repository branches. ALT Linux Rescue is, well, the disaster recovery tool.




Ikki Boot is a Live DVD/USB multiboot which aims troubleshooting, disk partitioning, rescue, backup and restore data.





Bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian especially well suited for administrative tasks like installation, deployment and system rescue.
Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. Since version 3.

An up to date Fedora snapshot which contains a whole lot of useful utilities for data recovery, networking and others.
More complete, versatile and updated to the time this was written