Hoek's Tools Alternatives

Hoek's Tools is described as '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' and is a File Recovery tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Hoek's Tools for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Linux Mint apps. The best Hoek's Tools 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 Hiren’s BootCD PE. Other great apps like Hoek's Tools are DiskGenius, Ultimate Boot CD, All in One – System Rescue Toolkit and The Portable Freeware Collection.

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    Boots PCs with startup issues, recovers data from non-bootable drives, fixes over 100 Windows boot problems, resets lost passwords, backs up and clones partitions, restores files from crashed systems or formatted drives, and secures sensitive data.

    40 4DDiG Windows Boot Genius alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • 4DDiG Windows Boot Genius is the most popular commercial alternative to Hoek's Tools.

    • 4DDiG Windows Boot Genius is Paid and ProprietaryHoek's Tools is Free and Proprietary
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    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.

    26 USB/DVD DLC Boot 2019 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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.

    20 Direction & Direction Lite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Linux Mint
    • Windows Preinstallation Environment
    • Kali Linux
     
    • Direction & Direction Lite is the most popular Android alternative to Hoek's Tools.

    • Direction & Direction Lite is Free Personal and ProprietaryHoek's Tools is Free and Proprietary
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    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.

    12 Offline NT Password & Registry Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian especially well suited for administrative tasks like installation, deployment and system rescue.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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.

    27 Trinity Rescue Kit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    The BootMed Live CD is an Ubuntu Remix for those new to Linux. It's main goal is to help the average Windows user to recover a computer that will not boot. BootMed can help you remove viruses from a computer that will not boot, recover deleted files and partitions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
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    Active@ Data Studio (Live CD) contains a set of both desktop applications and a bootable image for booting up any system into a DOS or Windows environment. Whether you need to perform data recovery, data imaging, or to securely erase data, Active@ Data Studio allows you to run...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Dual-boot Repair will automatically fix boot environment of systems based on Windows 7, Windows 8 or Vista with Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7/8 as second operating system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a Slackware-based CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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