Hiren's BootCD From USB Flash Drive (USB Pen Drive)

Step 1
Connect USB Pen Drive (1GB or more)

Step 2
Download and Run USB Disk Storage Format  USBFormat.zip (34KB)

Step 3
Download grubinst_gui  grub4dos.zip (179KB) and Run as Administrator

Step 4
Insert the BootCD (10.3 or newer) in the CD Drive and Copy everything from CD to USB Flash Drive

Step 5
Copy grldr and menu.lst from grub4dos.zip (or from HBCD folder) to the usb drive

Step 6
Test Your USB Drive (read bottom of the page for troubleshoot)

ake sure you set your computer to boot from USB Flash Drive

To Enter the BIOS press the "Del" button on your keyboard. Alternatives are "F1", "F2", "Insert", and "F10". Some PC's BIOS might even require a different key to be pressed. Commonly a PC will show a message like "Press [Del] to enter Setup" to indicate that you need to press the "Del" key. Some AMI BIOS require you to enable the option "USB Keyboard Legacy support"!

For AMI BIOS:

• Go to "Feature Setup". "Enable" these options: "USB Function Support", 
  "USB Function For DOS" and "ThumbDrive for DOS". Go to "Advanced Setup". 
  Set the "1st Boot Device" to "USB RMD-FDD".
  Reboot the PC and it now should boot from the Usb Stick.
  
• Go to "USB Mass Storage Device Configuration". Select "Emulation Type" 
  and set it to "Harddisk". Go to the "Boot Menu" and set the "1st boot device" to "USB-Stick". Exit the BIOS, saving the changes. 
  you can try "Emulation Type" to "Floppy" or "Forced FDD".

For PHOENIX/AWARD BIOS:

• Go to "Advanced BIOS Features". Go to the "1st Boot device" and set it to "USB-ZIP".

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Troubleshoot

If you cannot install grub4dos (or you get "cannot run background program" message) then use syslinux to boot grub4dos

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Xiaopan

About

Xiaopan OS is an easy to use software package for beginners and experts that includes a number of advanced hacking tools to penetrate wireless networks. Based on the Tiny Core Linux (TCL) operating system (OS), it has a slick graphical user interface (GUI) requiring no need for typing Linux commands. Xiaopan OS is Windows, Mac and Linux compatible and users can simply install and boot this ~70mb OS through a USB pen drive or in a virtual machine (VM) environment.

Xiaopan OS is community driven, without active users the project will cease to exist. Therefore developments and improvements are largely due to help from the users. Share this on Facebook, twitter and tell your friends! Signup to the forums to ask for help or share something you have learned.

Introduction

Xiaopan OS was created by Djyuzi from anywlan.com in late 2011 in the absence of another popular TCL build called Beini. Djyuzi realised that Beini was currently outdated and no longer being developed and decided to fill the gap. Our aim is further develop Xiaopan and provide excellent support to users worldwide, particularly to those who use the English language.

Alternatives

There are a number of operating systems that have been developed specifically for hacking which all are based on Linux. These include BackTrack and WiFiway. What sets Xiaopan OS apart from its competitors is that it Xiaopan OS is simple to use and just works, depending on a number of variables and providing you have all the right hardware of course.

Tools

Xiaopan OS includes a number of tools to hack WiFi Protected Setup (WPS), WiFI Protected Access (WPA) and Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encrypted networks:

• Reaver: newly developed application with the ability to brute force crack WPS (WPA / WPA2) pins.

• Inflator: this is the GUI version of command line reaver.

• Aircrack-ng: the major backbone of many other Xiaopan tools including FeedingBottle (FB) and Minidwep with the ability to attack WPA networks through a dictionary attack and WEP networks through collecting and injecting packets.

• FeedingBottle: so easy a baby could use it! FB is essentially the Aircrack-ng GUI and was created by Beini.

• Minidwep: is similar to FB but has a better and similar GUI that is even easier to use than FB. The added advantage of Minidwep is that you can also run Reaver and Inflator from here as well.

• Xfe: this is a simple file manager similar to say windows explorer.

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UNetbootin

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Introduction

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.

Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, or Linux, or Mac OS X 10.5+. Note that resulting USB drives are bootable only on PCs (not on Macs).
• Internet access for downloading a distro to install, or a pre-downloaded ISO file

Features

UNetbootin can create a bootable Live USB drive, or it can make a "frugal install" on your local hard disk if you don't have a USB drive. It loads distributions either by downloading a ISO (CD image) files for you, or by using an ISO file you've already downloaded.


The current version has built-in support for automatically downloading and loading the following distributions, though installing other distributions is also supported:

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Hiren's BootCD

Hiren's BootCD 13.0

All in One Bootable CD which has all these utilities

Antivirus Tools

Avira AntiVir Personal (31-12-2010) Free anti-virus and anti-spyware on-demand scanner, detects and removes more than 50000 viruses.

ComboFix (31-12-2010) Designed to cleanup malware infections and restore settings modified by malware.

CWShredder 2.19 Popular CoolWebSearch Trojan Remover tool.

Dr.Web CureIt! Antivirus (31-12-2010) a free standalone anti-virus and anti-spyware on-demand scanner.

GMER 1.0.15 Hidden services, hidden registry, hidden file scanner, Rootkit Detector and Remover.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.50.1 (31-12-2010) anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware.

Remove Fake Antivirus 1.72 a tool to remove virus/malwares which disguises itself to be an antivirus and produces fake alert/warnings and urge you to purchase a useless copy of the fake antivirus.

RootkitRevealer 1.7.1 Rootkit Revealer is an advanced patent-pending root kit detection utility.

SmitFraudFix 2.424 This removes Some of the popular Desktop Hijack malware.

Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (31-12-2010) Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software.

SpywareBlaster 4.4 (31-12-2010) Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software.

SuperAntispyware 4.47.1000 (31-12-2010) Remove Malware, Rootkits, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Parasites (a must have tool).

Backup Tools

COPYR.DMA Build013 A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors.

CopyWipe 1.14 Copy old hard drive to a new hard drive by copying the entire contents of one drive to another, CopyWipe can also help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive.

DiskImage 1.6 Creates and writes disk images files to hard and floppy disks.

Double Driver 3.0 Driver Backup and Restore tool.

DriveImage XML 2.20 backup any drive/partition to an image file, even if the drive is currently in use, a very good freeware alternative to Ghost / Acronis

DriverBackup! 1.0.3 Another handy tool to backup drivers.

Drive SnapShot 1.40 creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.

FastCopy 2.06 The Fastest Copy/Delete Software on Windows.

G4L Ghost 4 Linux 0.34a a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost.

GImageX 2.0.17 ImageX is used to backup/restore WIM images for Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7.

ImgBurn 2.5.2.0 Lightweight CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray burning application, supports BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI, Ability to build DVD/HD/BD Video discs from a VIDEO_TS/HVDVD_TS/BDAV/BDMV folder, Unicode folder/file names (formerly DVD Decrypter).

InfraRecorder 0.51 An Open source CD/DVD burning software, also create/burn .iso images.

Macrium Reflect 4.2.2952 Create complete backups of your disk partitions, including operating system, installed programs and all your settings.

Partition Image - PartImage 0.6.9 supported filesystem includes Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, HFS, HPFS, JFS, Xfs, UFS, Fat16, Fat32 and NTFS.

Partition Saving 3.90 A tool to backup/restore partitions (SavePart.exe).

RegBak 1.0 a light-weight and simple utility to create backups of Windows registry files.

Raw Copy 1.2 Useful tool to transfer the data directly from a faulty drive to another drive, built in data recovery function which will also attempt to recover data from bad sectors.

ShadowCopy 1.00 Copy all your files and entire system - even if they are locked by Windows.

SelfImage 1.2.1.92 to create image files of any mounted or unmounted hard disk partition.

Seagate DiscWizard 11.8326 Backup drive/partition to an image file, for Seagate owners (Powered by Acronis TrueImage)

Smart Driver Backup 2.12 Easy backup of your Windows device drivers (also works from PE).

TeraCopy 2.12 TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features includes pause, resume, auto shutdown, verify, error recovery and unicode support.

WhitSoft File Splitter 4.5a a Small File Split / Join Tool.

XXClone 0.58.0 The simple way to clone a Windows disk to another disk, it makes a self-bootable clone of Windows system disk.

BIOS / CMOS Tools

Award DMI Configuration Utility 2.43 DMI Configuration utility for modifying/viewing the MIDF contents.

!BIOS 3.20 a powerfull utility for bios and cmos.

BIOS Cracker 5.0 BIOS password remover (cmospwd).

BIOS Utility 1.35.0 BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more.

CMOS 0.93 CMOS Save / Restore Tool.

DISKMAN4 a powerful all in one utility.

Kill CMOS a tiny utility to wipe cmos.

UniFlash 1.40 bios flash utility.

Browsers / File Managers

7-Zip 9.20 File archiver with a high compression ratio Supports 7z, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, FAT, GZ, GZIP, HFS, IMA, IMG, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, TAR, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, XZ, ZIP and Z formats.

Bulk Rename Utility 2.7.1.2 Rename multiple files, change timestamps and rename using EXIF data with the click of a button.

Dos Command Center 5.1 Classic dos-based file manager.

Dos Navigator 6.4.0 Dos File Manager, Norton Commander clone but has much more features.

EasyUHA 1.1 GUI Tool to create and extract UHA Archives.

Everything 1.21 Ultra fast file/folder search tool with ftp/http server.

Explore2fs 1.08b GUI explorer tool for accessing linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems under windows.

Ext2Explore 2.2.71 To explore ext2/ext3/ext4 disk/partition, can also be used to view and copy disk and file system images.

File Maven 3.5 an advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file transfers via serial or parallel cable.

File Wizard 1.35 a file manager - colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc.

FastLynx 2.0 Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability.

HashMyFiles 1.68 Calculate MD5/SHA1/CRC32 hashes of your files.

Mini Windows 98 Can run from Ram Drive, with ntfs support, 7-Zip, Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor, Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc.

Mini Windows Xp Portable Windows Xp that runs from CD/USB/Ram Drive to repair/recover dead windows operating system. It has LAN and WLAN (Wireless) Network includes 300 WiFi/Ethernet card drivers and can also be customized easily to add your own drivers in HBCD\Drivers folder. Added some USB 3.0 and SATA Storage drivers and VBS/WSH scripting support. Supported keyboard layouts are: United States, United Kingdom, Turkish Q, Turkish F, Swiss German, Swiss French, Swedish, Suomi Finnish, Spanish, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Norvegian Norske, Netherlands Dutch, Latin American, Italy, Icelandic, Hungarian, Hebrew, Germany, German Switzerland Luxembourg, Francais Cavier AZERTY, Denmark Daenish, Bulgarian Phonetic, Bulgarian, Brazil Portuguese, Brazil Extended Portuguese and Belgium.

Opera Web Browser 9.64 One of the fastest, smallest and smartest full-featured web browser.

SearchMyFiles 1.61 Alternative to 'Search For Files And Folders' module of Windows + Duplicates Search.

Total Commander 7.56a A file manager similar to the Windows Explorer features side-by-side file-browsing panes, built-in FTP, archive management, file search/compare/synchronize and more.

Volkov Commander 4.99 Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support (Similar to Norton Commander).

WinMerge 2.12.4.0 Differencing and merging tool which can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Cleaners

ATF Cleaner 3.0.0.2 A personal and easy-to-use temp file removal software to clean all user temp folders, Java cache, Opera/Mozilla browser cache, cookies, history, download history, saved passwords etc.

CCleaner 3.02.1343 Crap Cleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool.

CleanUp! 4.5.2 Removes junk files from all user profiles that accumulate over time and litter your hard drive.

CloneSpy 2.52 Duplicate file cleanup tool, can optionaly create hardlinks to save space.

Data Shredder 1.0 A tool to Erase disk and files (also wipe free space) securely.

Delete Doctor 2.2 Delete Files that are hard to delete, Option to delete on reboot or via UNC Name.

Duplicate File Finder 3.5 Scans and identify duplicate files, it compares them based on byte for byte comparison ensures 100% accuracy.

MyUninstaller 1.70 Alternative to the standard add / remove control panel module.

Revo Uninstaller 1.90 Remove unnecessary files and registry entries left behind by incomplete program uninstallation routines.

SpaceMonger 1.4 keeping track of the free space on your computer.

SpaceSniffer 1.1.2.0 Find lost space on your disks the easy way.

WinDirStat 1.1.2.80 a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows.

Editors / Viewers

HxD 1.7.7.0 Hex Editor provides tools to inspect and edit files, main memory, disks/disk images.

IrfanView 4.28 A free Image Viewer/Editor/Converter and Optimizer.

Picture Viewer 1.94 Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes.

QuickView Pro 2.58 movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx.

SumatraPDF 1.1 a free, open source, lightweight PDF Reader for Microsoft Windows.

FileSystems Tools

AlternateStreamView 1.15 View/Copy/Delete hidden NTFS Alternate Data Streams.

EditBINI 1.01 to Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition.

FileDisk Mount Tool 25 to mount ISO/BIN/NRG/MDF/IMA/IMG images on windows.

Filemon 7.04 Monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time.

NewSID 4.10 utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.

NTFS Access 2.1 Set NTFS permissions recursively and full access rights to a folder/file owner.

NTFS Dos 3.02 to read-only access ntfs partitions from Dos.

NTFS4Dos 1.9 to read and write ntfs partitions from Dos.

Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1 enables you to create and mount a virtual floppy drive on your NT/2000/XP/Vista.

Hard Disk Tools

Active Kill Disk 4.1.2393 Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.

Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) 1.0.7 Completely deletes the contents of any hard disk it can detect.

DiskView 2.4 to view graphical map of your disk, allowing you to check where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it.

DiskWipe 1.2 Securely erases the contents of a disk replacing it with random data or leaving the drive completely blank.

ExcelStor's ESTest 4.50 ExcelStor hard disk diagnostic utility.

Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 7.00 to check IDE drives for possible defects/problems.

Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0 Low Level Format Tool for Fujitsu Drives.

Gateway GwScan 5.12 Gateway hard drive diagnostic utility.

Hard Disk Sentinel 1.00.5 Hard Disk health, performance and temperature monitoring tool.

HDAT2 4.53the main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices. A freeware alternative of HDD Regenerator.

HDD Capacity Restore 1.2 This tool allows you to restore factory capacity of any hard drive. it does not read from or write to the user data area or perform any kind of formatting, only alters HDD firmware (HPA and DCO settings).

HDD Erase 4.0 Secure erase using a special feature built into most newer hard drives.

HDD Low Level Format Tool 2.36 Low-level format tool for S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, USB, Flash Cards and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures.

IBM Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.16 quickly and reliably tests SCSI, IDE and SATA drives.

IBM Hitachi Feature Tool 2.15 allows you to control some of the features of the the HDD.

Maxtor amset utility 4.0 Utility for changing Acoustic Management on the hard drives.

Maxtor Low Level Formatter 1.1 Maxtor's Low Level Format Utility works on any harddrive.

Maxtor PowerMax 4.23 designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on Maxtor/Quantum hard drives.

MHDD 4.6 Precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, perform Low-level format, Bad Sector Sepair, access raw sectors, manage S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) and other drive parameters such as acoustic management, security, Host Protected Area, etc.

Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28 to diagnose the disk when suspected to have failures.

Samsung ESTOOL 3.01v Drive Diagnostic, Automatic Acoustic Management, Enable/Disable SMART etc.

Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 2.10 The Drive Diagnostic Utility.

SeaTools for Dos GUI 2.22 Text 1.10 versions to test Seagate or Maxtor Parallel ATA (PATA and IDE) and Serial ATA (SATA) interface disc drives.

SmartUDM 2.00 Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.

Toshiba Hard Disk Diagnostic 2.00b Toshiba hard drive diagnostic utility.

Victoria 3.33e and 3.52rus a freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

Victoria 4.46 Universal program for testing storage devices

ViVard 1.0 HDD low-level diagnostics, Surface test with remap, SMART-attributes etc.

WDClear 1.30 Restore/Erases the drive back to a factory condition.

Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2 for the installation of Western Digital EIDE Hard Drives.

Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.19 to quickly and efficiently verify the status of the drive.

Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools 1.22 to perform drive identification, diagnostics, and repairs on most WD drives

MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools

BellaVista 1.1.0.54 Formerly BCD Editor with lots of options to configure Windows for a developer.

Boot Partition 2.60 add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader.

BootFix Utility Run this utility if you get 'Invalid system disk' message.

BootSect 6.0.6 Boot Sector Manipulation Tool, This tool replaces FixFAT.exe and FixNTFS.exe.

BootICE 0.80.6 a boot sector manipulation utility.

DiskMan 4.2 all in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more.

FbInst 1.6 A tool to create universal flash boot disk that boots from all computers.

Grub4Dos installer 1.1 an universal boot loader GRUB for DOS GRLDR installer.

grub4dos 2010-12-25 an universal boot loader based on GNU GRUB, can boot off DOS/LINUX or via Windows boot manager/syslinux/lilo or from MBR/CD, builtin BIOS disk emulation.

HDHacker 1.4 Load/Save/View MBR and BootSector from a physical/logical drive.

isolinux 4.03 a boot loader for Linux/i386 that operates off ISO 9660/El Torito CD-ROMs in 'no emulation' mode.

MBRWizard 3.0.73 Directly update and modify the Master Boot Record.

MbrFix 1.3 to backup, restore, fix the boot code in the MBR.

MBR Utility 1.05 to manipulate a drive's master boot record (MBR) via the command line.

MBRWork 1.08 a utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions.

MBRTool 2.3.200 backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write and more.

MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1 BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR.

MemDisk 4.03 to allow booting legacy operating systems, floppy images, hard disk images and some ISO images.

PLoP Boot Manager 5.0.11 a small program to boot different operating systems harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB, it can boot from an USB/CD/DVD even without BIOS support.

RMPrepUSB 2.1.600 Partition and format your USB drive and make it bootable.

Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1 a multi boot manager.

XOSL 1.1.5 A graphical boot manager that supports multi-booting of various operating systems.

Ms Dos Tools

1394 Firewire Support 1394 Firewire Drivers for Dos.

ASUSTeK USB Driver 3 ASUS USB CD-ROM Device Driver Version 1.00.

Dos tools Collection of dos utilities extract.exe pkzip.exe pkunzip.exe lha.exe gzip.exe uharcd.exe imgExtrc.exe xcopy.exe diskcopy.com mouse.com undelete.com edit.com fdisk.exe fdisk2.exe fdisk3.exe lf.exe delpart.exe wipe.com zap.com format.com deltree.exe more.com find.exe hex.exe debug.exe split.exe mem.exe attrib.com sys.com smartdrv.exe xmsdsk.exe killer.exe share.exe scandisk.exe guest.exe doskey.exe duse.exe move.exe setver.exe intersvr.exe interlnk.exe loadlin.exe lfndos.exe doslfn.com and more.

Interlnk support at COM1/LPT1 to access another computer from COM/LPT port.

SCSI Support SCSI Drivers for Dos.

SATA Support SATA Driver (gcdrom.sys) and JMicron JMB361 (xcdrom.sys) for Dos.

Universal USB Driver 2 Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage.

USB CD-Rom Driver 1 Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive.

Network Tools

Angry IP Scanner 2.21 Scan IP addresses in any range as well as any their ports.

CurrPorts 1.85 displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your computer.

Network Password Recovery 1.30 Recover Windows XP/Vista network passwords / Credentials file.

PuTTY 0.60 r3 PuTTY Tray is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH and Telnet.

SmartSniff 1.72 Network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter.

TCPView 3.02 Lists TCP and UDP endpoints, including the Local/Remote addresses of TCP connections.

TFtpd32 3.51 Tftpd32 is for Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client, including DHCP, TFTP, SNTP and Syslog servers, can also be used for PXE boot.

WinSCP 4.2.9 A free and open source SFTP/FTP client to secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer.

XP TCP/IP Repair 1.0 Repair your Windows XP Winsock and TCP/IP registry errors.

Optimizers

Defraggler 2.01.239 to defrag your entire hard drive or individual files.

MyDefrag 4.3.1 Free disk defragment and optimize utility (formerly JkDefrag) for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7.

NT Registry Optimizer 1.1j Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista.

PageDfrg 2.32 System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP.

Other Tools

Calcute 7.10.4 A compact scientific tape calculator with many features.

Fix NTLDR is missing Fix 'NTLDR is missing, Press any key to restart' for Windows Xp.

HBCD Customizer 1.5 HBCDCustomizer.exe is a GUI tool to create custom iso images of Hiren's BootCD.

HBCD Program Launcher 2.0 Hiren's BootCD Program launcher (HBCDMenu.exe and HBCDMenu.csv) can be used to launch all these programs from USB/CD.

Mini Linux Recovery is Possible Linux (RIPLinux 11.1) kernel 2.6.35.4 contains afftools, aria2, beaver, cdrtools, clamav, curl, ddrescue, ddpt, defrag, dump/restore, emelfm2, encfs, epdfview, extundelete, findwild, fuse-exfat, fsarchiver, grub2, hdparm, hpacucli, isomaster, lftp, lynx, lzip, mtpaint, ntfs-3g, openssh, partclone, partimage, pccmoscleaner, pcdiskeraser, pcmanfm, pcloginnow, pcregedit, pidgin, qemu, reiserfsck, rdup, safecopy, smbclient, sylpheed, syslinux, tar, truecrypt, tw_cli, tmux, wiper, xfburn, xfprot, xterm and more.

On-Screen Keyboard A utility that displays a virtual keyboard on the computer screen that allows people with mobility impairments to type data by using a pointing device or joystick.

Universal TCP/IP Network 6.5 MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based network, it contains 98 different network card drivers.

WinNTSetup 1.5.0.3 Install Windows 2k/XP/2003 x86/x64 from USB/CD under PE/LiveXp, allows you to apply tweaks and choose driveletter for the new Windows installation.

Partition Tools

eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3 XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition.

Fat32 Formatter GUI 1.01 Windows XP cannot format a volume bigger than 32GB with FAT32.

GParted Partition Editor 0.7.0 to create, copy, paste, delete, hide, resize or move partitions without losing data, a good freeware alternative to Partition Magic.

Partition Table Editor 8.0 Partition Table and Boot Record Editor.

Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2 Free Partition Magic Alternative, Partition Resize/Move/Copy/Create/Delete/Format/Convert, Explore, etc.

Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.

Smart Fdisk 2.05 a simple harddisk partition manager.

SPecial Fdisk 2000.03v SPFDISK is a partition tool.

Super Fdisk 1.0 Create, delete, format partitions drives without destroying data.

The Partition Resizer 1.3.4 move and resize your partitions in one step.

USB Format Tool Format/make bootable any USB flash drive to FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition.

Password Tools

ATAPWD 1.2 Hard Disk Password Utility.

Autologon 3.0 Enables you to easily configure Windows' built-in autologon mechanism, so you don't have to wait on the login screen.

BIOS Master Password Generator Collection of password generator tools to reset BIOS Power on Password / Admin password on Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, Phoenix and Samsung Laptops.

BulletsPassView 1.00 Reveal the passwords stored behind the bullet (asterisk) characters in Windows / IE (Updated Asterisk Logger) x32/x64.

Content Advisor Password Remover 1.01 It Removes Content Advisor Password from Internet Explorer.

IE PassView 1.25 It allows you to view username and passwords saved by Internet Explorer.

Kon-Boot 1.1 to bypass Login Password of Windows (32bit, any password) and Linux login as kon-usr.

LicenseCrawler 1.2.0.98 find the license keys and serial numbers of your programs.

Mail PassView 1.70 Recovers mail passwords of Outlook Express, MS Outlook, IncrediMail, Eudora, etc.

MessenPass 1.40 A password recovery tool that reveals the passwords of several instant messangers.

NTPWD utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.

NTPWEdit 0.3 Password editor for Windows NT based systems to change or remove passwords for local system accounts.

Offline NT Password Changer 2010-06-27 utility to reset/unlock windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 administrator/user password.

Password Renew 1.1 Utility to set/reset windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32bit only) passwords.

PasswordFox 1.26 Allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

ProduKey 1.45 Recovers lost the product key of your Windows/Office.

PST (Outlook) Password Recovery 1.15 PstPassword is a small utility that recovers lost password of Outlook .PST (Personal Folders) file.

Router IP/Passwords The complete list of Default Router Passwords and Default Router IP Addresses, can be useful if you have misplaced the manual or lost your router password.

SniffPass 1.12 A password monitoring tool that listens to your network, capture the passwords that pass through your network adapter, it works on POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP protocols and recovers lost Web/FTP/Email passwords x32/x64.

WindowsGate 1.1 Enables/Disables Windows logon password validation.

WinKeyFinder 1.73 Allows you to View and Change Windows XP/2003 Product Keys, backup and restore activation related files, backup Microsoft Office 97, 2000 SP2, XP/2003 keys etc.

WirelessKeyView 1.34 Recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by WZC Wireless Zero Configuration.

XP Key Reader 2.7 Can decode the XP-key on Local or Remote systems.

Process Tools

Dependency Walker 2.2 Checks for missing/invalid DLL/modules/functions for any exe/dll/ocx/sys.

IB Process Manager 1.04 a little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc.

OpenedFilesView 1.47 View opened/locked files in your system, sharing violation issues.

Pocket KillBox 2.0.0.978 can be used to get rid of files that stubbornly refuse to allow you to delete them.

Process Explorer 14.1 Shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Process Monitor 2.93 to monitor real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity, This tool replaces Filemon and Regmon.

ProcessActivityView 1.11 Detailed process access information read/write/opened files etc.

RKill (24-10-2010) RKill just kills malware processes, imports a Registry file that removes incorrect file associations and fixes policies that stop us from using certain tools.

RunAsDate 1.10 allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify.

Unlocker 1.9.0 This tool can delete file/folder when you get this message - Cannot delete file: Access is denied, The file is in use by another program etc.

Recovery Tools

DataRescue DD 1.0 DrDD is a disk imager intended for data recovery and backup of partially corrupted storage devices, the main advantages are Range Selection and Copy Backward Direction.

DiskDigger 0.8.3.176 Undelete and recover lost photos, videos, music, documents and other formats from your hard drive, memory cards and USB flash drives.

DiskGenius 3.2 Restore deleted partition, Rebuild MBR, Rebuild partition table, Recover files, Restore formatted partition, Backup files by partition, Disk clone, Backup partition table, Create/Delete/Format Partitions etc.

IsoBuster 2.8.5 CD/DVD/Blu-ray and Disk Image File data recovery tool that can read and extract files, tracks and sessions from CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, DVD, DVCD BD and HD DVD and other media as well as a wide variety of disk image formats, it also has retry-mechanisms for damaged CD/DVD.

Partition Find and Mount 2.31 Partition Find and Mount software is designed to find lost or deleted partitions.

PartitionRecovery 1.0 A freeware tool to recover accidentally deleted partitions.

PhotoRec 6.12b Tool to Recover File and pictures from Dos/Windows/Linux.

Recuva 1.39.509 Restore deleted files from Hard Drive, Digital Camera Memory Card, usb mp3 player etc.

Restoration 3.2.13 a tool to recover deleted files.

ShadowExplorer 0.7 Shadow Explorer allows you to browse the shadow copies created by the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and retrieve older versions from files you accidentally deleted or altered.

Smart Partition Recovery 3.3 Find Lost NTFS partitions and restore them back.

SoftPerfect File Recovery 1.2 to restore accidentally deleted files from hard drive, USB flash drives, CF and SD memory cards.

TestDisk 6.12b Tool to check and undelete partition from Dos/Windows/Linux.

Unstoppable Copier 5.2 Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data.

Registry Tools

ERUNT 1.1j The Emergency Recovery Utility NT Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP.

Fix HDC Fix the Hard Drive Controller when replacing your motherboard on an XP system.

Glary Registry Repair 3.3.0.852 an advanced registry cleaner that allows you to safely scan, clean, and repair registry problems.

RegFromApp 1.21 Monitors/exports the Registry changes made by the selected application.

Registry Editor PE 0.9c Easy editing of remote registry hives and user profiles.

Registry Restore Wizard 1.0.4 Restores a corrupted system registry from Xp System Restore.

Regmon 7.04 A monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry.

RegScanner 1.83 Tool to find/search in the Registry of Windows.

RegShot 1.8.2 a registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.

Registry Viewer 4.2 Registry Viewer/Editor for Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP.

Remote Control Tools

Ammyy Admin 2.13 For remote computer access, desktop sharing, file transfer, voice connect remote computer.

TeamViewer 5.0.8703 Access any remote computer via Internet just like sitting in front of it, even through firewalls.

TightVNC 2.0.2 Cross-platform Remote Desktop Software to view/control remote pc with mouse and keyboard.

Security / Encryption Tools

DiskCryptor 0.9 High speed disk encryption tool to encrypt all disk/partitions, including the system partition encryption support.

TrueCrypt 7.0a On-the-fly Linux/Windows disk encryption tool, can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk, can also encrypt an entire HDD/Partition/USB Drive.

Startup Tools

Autoruns 10.06 Displays All the entries from startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys, Explorer shell extensions,toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, Scheduled Tasks, Winsock, LSA Providers, Remove Drivers and much more which helps to remove nasty spyware/adware and viruses.

HijackThis 2.0.4 a general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more.

ServiWin v1.40 Alternative Windows Services/Drivers Tool.

Silent Runners Revision 63 A free script that helps detect spyware, malware and adware in the startup process.

Startup Control Panel 2.8 a tool to edit startup programs.

Startup Monitor 1.02 it notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup.

System Information Tools

Astra 5.48 Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant.

BlueScreenView 1.30 Scans minidump files for BSOD (blue screen of death) crash information.

CPU Identification utility 1.18CHKCPU.EXE Detailed information on CPU.

CPU-Z 1.56 It gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

CTIA CPU Information 2.7 another CPU information tool.

Drive Temperature 1.0 Hard Disk Drive temperature meter.

GPU-Z 0.5.0 A lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

HDTune 2.55 HD Tune is a hard disk health, benchmarking, error scanner and information tool.

HWiNFO 5.5.0 a powerful system information utility.

Navratil Software System Information 0.60.45 High-end professional system information tool.

PCI and AGP info Tool (31-12-2010) The PCI System information and Exploration tool.

PC Wizard 2010.1.961 PCWizard is a powerful system information/benchmark utility designed especially for detection of hardware.

PCI 32 Sniffer 1.4 (31-12-2010) device information tool which is similar to unknown devices.

SIW 2010.10.21 Gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings.

Speccy 1.07.205 an advanced System Information tool for your PC.

System Analyser 5.3w View extensive information about your hardware.

System Explorer 2.6.1 Shows detailed system information about processes, startups, IE addons, drivers, explorer, etc.

SysChk 2.46 Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC.

UnknownDevices 1.4.20 (31-12-2010) helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.

Update Checker 1.038 scans your computer for installed software and checks for newer releases on FileHippo.

USBDeview 1.84 View/Uninstall all installed/connected USB devices on your system.

Testing Tools

Bart's Stuff Test 5.1.4 Long term heavy stress testing storage devices.

CPU/Video/Disk Performance Test 5.7 a tool to test cpu, video, and disk.

Disk Speed 1.0 Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool.

GoldMemory 5.07 Memory Diagnostic Tests.

H2testw 1.4 Check your USB Flash memory cards, internal/external hard drives and network drives for errors with this tool.

HDD Scan 3.3 HDDScan is a Low-level HDD diagnostic tool, it scans surface find bad sectors etc.

IsMyLcdOK (Monitor Test) 1.02 Allows you to test CRT/LCD/TFT screens for dead pixels and diffective screens.

Memtest86+ 4.15b PC Memory Test.

MemTest 1.0 a Memory Testing Tool.

S&M Stress Test 1.9.1 cpu/hdd/memory benchmarking and information tool, including temperatures/fan speeds/voltages.

System Speed Test 4.78 it tests CPU, harddrive, ect.

Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0 a tool to test Hard Disk Drive.

Video Memory Stress Test 1.7.116 a tool to thoroughly test your video RAM for errors and faults.

Video Memory Stress Test CE 1.21 Tests all video RAM accessible by 32-bit CPU address space from a clean environment.

Windows Memory Diagnostic a RAM Test tool.

Tweakers

Dial a Fix 0.60.0.24 Fix errors and problems with COM/ActiveX object errors and missing registry entries, Automatic Updates, SSL, HTTPS, and Cryptography service (signing/verification) issues, Reinstall internet explorer etc. comes with the policy scanner.

Disable Autorun A small tweak which disables processing of autorun.inf to protect your PC from usb autorun viruses.

Disable Compress Old Files This registry tweak is useful when Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files.

EzPcFix 1.0.0.16 Helpful tool when trying to remove viruses, spyware, and malware.

InstalledCodec 1.15 Disable/Enable Installed Codec drivers and DirectShow filters.

KeyTweak 2.3.0 a program to Remap Keyboard Layout, you can even customize a broken key to an unused key.

Protect a Drive from Autorun Virus Protect your pen drive from being infected when you plug it in an infected PC.

RemoveWGA 1.2 Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications Removal tool.

RRT - Remove Restrictions Tool 3.0 to Re-enable Ctrl+Alt+Del, Folder Options and Registry tools etc.

Shell Extensions Manager (ShellExView) 1.50 An excellent tool to View and Manage all installed Context-menu/Shell extensions.

ShellMenuNew 1.01 View/Change the list of all menu items in the 'New' submenu of Windows Explorer.

Show Hidden Devices Device Manager hides nonpresent devices that are not physically present in the system, but still have configuration information in the Registry.

TweakUI 2.10 This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in Windows Xp.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.1 A TweakUI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista.

Write Protect USB Devices Tweak your PC to make USB Pen Drive, Memory Card or Thumb Drive as Read Only.

Xp-AntiSpy 3.97.10 it tweaks some Windows XP functions, and disables some unneeded Windows services quickly.

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HD CLONE

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NEW: Creating physical image files.
NEW: Running on Windows XP/Vista/Server now.
NEW: Automatical upsizing during copying with AutoExpand.

The Free Edition of HDClone clones an entire hard disk to another, larger medium. Use it for migrating an existing installation to a new hard disk or for rescuing data. The Free Edition is real freeware without obligation to buy and is intended for the short-term usage at no cost. In case of more frequent usage, we recommend using one of the higher editions since they offer higher performance, support for a wider range of hardware, and additional options which are optimized for regular or professional use.

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BartPE

What is BartPE and PE Builder?

Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!




Introduction

PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment ("Windows PE"). Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to Microsoft Windows PE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other than stated in the End-User License Agreement included in your version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builder and does not endorse its use.

Please do not contact Microsoft for support on the preinstallation environment that has been created by PE Builder!
Microsoft does not provide support for PE Builder or for the preinstallation environment created by PE Builder.

The PE Builder program (pebuilder.exe) runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE. It does not run on Windows NT4/ME/9x.

To avoid any confusion, the bootable CD generated by PE Builder should be called by its nickname "BartPE"!

A word from the author

Hi, my name is Bart Lagerweij. I've been creating DOS based boot disks and bootable CD-Roms from Dos 3.x (not sure what year) until 2002. I have created the: Corporate Modboot, Network bootdisk, CD-Rom bootdisk, a hardware independent Dos CD-Rom driver eltorito.sys and lots of other tools needed to boot a PC the way I want it to.

As you can read above I've stopped doing that in 2002. Why? I saw a Windows PE (WinPE) bootable CD-Rom (from Microsoft) in action and I got very, very curious. I knew then as I know now, that in time PE-based solutions will be every PC technicians best friend.
Goodbye to all the good and bad dos-based NTFS utilities! Now we can boot from a CD-Rom and have full read/write access to NTFS volumes!

Here are a few things that are possible with PE and are not possible with any type of dos-based boot disk, even when using network support and ntfsdos:

Accessing very large (>2TB) NTFS volumes or accessing volumes that are not seen by the BIOS, like some fibre channel disks.
Very reliable scanning and cleaning of viruses on NTFS volumes using a "clean boot".
Active Directory support.
Have remote control over other machines, using vnc or remote desktop.

While I was already thinking about what great things this could do, I noticed the end-user license agreement for Microsoft software that is included with Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 1.2 (eula.txt). In section "1. ELIGIBILITY." it states the following:
..."You may only install and use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT if you are an active Microsoft Software Assurance Member ("SAM") for the systems product pool or servers product pool, if you currently have license coverage for Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) Upgrades via a Campus Agreement or School Agreement, or if you are a current or former participant in the Windows XP Joint Development Program, Windows XP Rapid Adoption Program, Windows .NET Server Joint Development Program, or Windows .NET Server Rapid Adoption Program. If you do not meet one or more of the requirements listed above, you may not install or use this SOFTWARE PRODUCT and you must terminate the installation of this SOFTWARE PRODUCT immediately"...

Oops, that does not include me. As a matter of fact that does not include most of us! This was very disappointing. But then I started thinking, how difficult can it be to build something similar to Windows PE from a Windows XP installation CD-Rom? A quick file compare looked like most of the needed files are on the Windows XP CD-Rom. Only because I thought building this would be easy, I started coding my own builder program. Had I known how hard it would be, I would probably never have started programming PE Builder.
This first version (v1.0.0) of PE Builder was released on April 28, 2003. Yes, version 1 was a very simple, very static, very bad and copyright violating program. And the (very friendly) people at Microsoft had every right to kick my butt. But I learned from it and in May 2003 I started on a second version. In July (three months later) v2 was ready.
Version 2 did not have the problems that version 1 had. The version 2 build engine had its own registry hive builder which was not easy to program and took about 50% of my research and coding time. It also was dynamic enough that it could build from Windows XP and Server 2003. In v2.0.1 I added a small but very powerful menu program called nu2menu, which was written by my buddy Henk de Jong. The latest 2 version (v2.0.2b) even used a new ISO filesystem called "ISO-9660:1999 (version 2)" instead of the Joliet extensions. Some non-English versions of Windows XP had filenames longer than the maximum allowed length for Joliet filenames (103 chars). I had to patch the ISO building program (mkisofs.exe) so that the Windows NT bootstrap and setup loader would boot properly. The file and directory names can now be up to 207 characters. But again this version had something bad. When comparing some INF files they looked too much like the Windows PE builder from Microsoft.

I had to change the entire INF file layout to use its own format. And on Sep 1, 2003 (almost 6 months after starting) version 3 was ready. After adding plugin support, PE Builder got very popular. People from all over the world are writing their own plugins to add the program they like and use.


BartPE vs. Windows PE?
BartPE is not supported by Microsoft. Windows PE is an official Microsoft product.
BartPE has a graphical user interface. Windows PE has a command line interface.
The tools needed to make a BartPE installation are free software. Windows PE is available only to Microsoft OEM users.
BartPE allows unlimited custom plugins. Windows PE has a limited range of plugins options.
What is the technical difference between BartPE and Windows PE?
Target - Microsoft sees Windows PE as an installation platform. Bart sees Windows PE as the next generation rescue platform.
Start-menu - Bart's builder gives you a simple, dynamic and powerful start-menu (Nu2Menu, see screenshots). Microsoft's builder does not give you a start-menu, it uses a command prompt.
Build from - Bart's builder can also build from Windows XP Home Edition or from a preinstalled Windows XP version (without CD).
Plugins - With PE Builder you can easily add applications, drivers or tools using plugins. This makes PE Builder extremely powerful. The end user can even combine plugins from different software vendors into one CD image.

Network support - PE Builder includes its own network support tools (bartpe/penetcfg) to start TCP/IP and Microsoft Client. The TCP/IP settings like: dynamic/static ip-address, subnet-mask, default gateway, dns-servers computer-name, workgroup can be changed on-the-fly. You can create pre-defined profiles, that you can select. Microsoft Windows PE only supports DHCP or fixed settings using winbom.ini.
Also there is a plugin (NwDskPe) created by Erwin Veermans that loads the Netware Client on BartPE (IP/IPX).
Fileshare - BartPE can start File Sharing support so you can connect to the system through a share.
VNC - Because of the File Sharing support you can also run UltraVNC.
Dos support - Bart's builder has a plugin called "dospe".
License - Microsoft Windows PE is only for Enterprise/OEM customers (see previous), BartPE is for everybody!
64-Bit - Bart's builder does not support Windows 64-bit editions.
Requirements to build:
The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
Supported Windows versions are:

Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)
Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)
Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.
CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.
Why did I build PE Builder?

Microsoft only provides Windows PE to OEM and Enterprise customers. So the small companies and end users do not get Windows PE. I think this is really bad. With PE Builder they can build a Bootable XP CD-Rom (called BartPE) to use for maintaining their systems.

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