At times, Windows is an unruly operating system. Random crashes, boot failures, error messages, and full blue screen of death system crashes are part and parcel of Windows life.

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Apr 17, 2019 - Easy Recovery Essentials is a file and system recovery program. The quotes below are cited from https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/Reviews/. I like to try and learn as much as I can, and do things that maybe I shouldn't, lol I have seen a lot of help on this forum,yes but I still not have solved my problem of ' operating system not found', ihave made a usb boot, but it needs the ' Essentials' or better still, one of the free tools you mentioned that does the same.I look forward to your reply, thanks in advance. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Easy Recovery Essentials for Windows 7, Home Edition at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.

If that sounds like your life, you must learn about some of the amazing Windows 10 rescue and recovery disks. These rescue disks have saved more than a few Windows user’s bacon on many occasions. Check out the Windows 10 rescue and recovery disks below—it could be the difference between a self-fix or a costly trip to the computer repair store.

1. Hiren’s BootCD PE x64

Hiren’s BootCD remains one of the single best Windows rescue and restore disks. Any IT technician or habitual technology tinkerer will have come across Hiren’s BootCD. If they have, they’ll sing its praises. However, the original Hiren’s BootCD ceased official updates in November 2012. Now, a trusty band of Hiren’s BootCD fans updates the rescue disk with the latest and greatest recovery utilities.

Hiren’s BootCD focuses on fixing Windows systems. The rescue disk contains a wealth of utilities including malware and rootkit detection, antivirus scanning, temporary file cleaners, data and driver backups, hardware scanning, partition scanning, imaging and saving, and even password crackers. You can also use Hiren’s BootCD to reflash your BIOS or wipe your CMOS if required.

Furthermore, to roll with the times, Hiren’s BootCD is now based in the Windows 10 Preinstallation Environment (PE). A PE is a lightweight version of the operating system primarily used for troubleshooting and is usually accompanied by additional recovery and rescue tools.

Need an old Hiren’s BootCD version? Use the drop-down menu to select the version you want.

2. Kyhi’s Recovery Drive

Kyhi’s Recovery Drive, also known with the cumbersome name of Windows 10 Recovery Tools—Bootable PE Rescue Disk, is a custom Windows 10 PE environment. In this case, TenForum’s user, Kyhi, has developed a Windows 10 PE environment filled with system restore and recovery tools.

Kyhi’s Recovery Drive comes with a huge range of tools for virus and malware removal, disk repairs, partition managers and scanners, networking, remote view and VNC tools, image backup and recovery tools, and much more. Better still, many users will find Kyhi’s Recovery Drive extremely easy to use due to the familiar environment. The recovery environment looks exactly like a Windows 10 installation, so navigation and access are just as you would expect.

The above image showcases just some of the array of Windows 10 recovery tools found in Kyhi’s Recovery Drive.

3. The Ultimate Boot CD

Similar to Hiren’s BootCD, UBCD troubleshoots both Windows and Linux systemsHow to Make a Bootable CD/DVD/USB to Install WindowsHow to Make a Bootable CD/DVD/USB to Install WindowsNeed installation media to reinstall Windows? Our tips show you how to create a bootable CD, USB, or DVD with an ISO from scratch.Read More with a massive range of helpful utilities. It is useful against issues up and down the system error board with drive cloning and data recovering tools, hardware testing, partition scanning and a host of other system repair tools.

UBCD aims to “consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD”—something the makers have come very close to achieving.

UBCD is completely free for download, so be wary of any site attempting to take payment for a download.

4. Knoppix

You cannot have a bacon-saving recovery disk list without including the grandfather of them all: Knoppix. This Linux Live CD provides a fully functional operating system once loaded onto a malfunctioning system, rather than just providing you a GUI with different system analysis options.

The Knoppix operating system comes with some 1,000 software packages for you to scan through, including troubleshooting, hardware analysis,>

There is no way you can all continue to dream to make your own rescue disk and have your computer virus free. I have a virus in my computer that as soon I download an antivirus software it will be modified by the virus. I was able to spot this problem by running Hitman Pro which is the only antivirus that was able to spot the problem. The files from Hitman Pro were changed as well and Hitman Pro did show its own files as if such files were infected. It took me a few minutes to realize there was a bad virus. However everything works on my computer and the virus is not causing a system crash. I only have bad popus coming up of advertising. The only solution to this problem is a clean computer or to purchase a rescue disk already burned by the antivirus makers. I am a licenced computer technician, not the best one out there, however I am still a good rooster in the field.

• Rebooting into safe mode and then engaging iexplore.exe or rkill.exe (same apps under different names because some viruses recognize rkill)) and then roguekiller_portable.exe will disable any active infections that safe boot did not disable. Then run adwcleaner and Hitman (DO NOT REBOOT) and this usually gets all the crap out by quarantining them. adwcleaner will want to reboot, but do that later, after Hitman. Then reboot back into normal mode and delete the quarantined files. Be careful which ones you select for quarantine and eventual deletion.

  Check your startup apps in the folder and in the registry to verify. WinPatrol and WinAntiRansom Plus are good tools to disallow any changes to entire system by giving you a popup dialog to let you check out the change before clicking 'allow' or not allowing that change.

I have HBCD UBCD and System Rescue CDs. The problem is that the opening page with
lots of option for what I want to do. But I cannot select any option because my keyboard
(Genious brand Wireless one) does not work at all. The keyboard works for normal
OS operation and also for some DVD /USB operation . So I do not think it is because of
keyboard fault.
HBCD just flashes a message some thing about PE stack not available and then something
about grub. The display flashes very fast and before I could read it disappears and the
first page with options to select for booting appears. I cannot scroll down to select.
Then the display freezes and I have to reboot using reset button.
What could be the problem ? What is this PE stack?

Can anyone suggest the best one for repairing the boot record of a Windows 2012 server?

Falcon UBCD contain Hiren Boot and a lot more.
6.1 is working right.

If you want to boot on modern UEFI machines, you need to use Easy2Boot, SARDU and such.

That's the main problem nowadays with boot rescue : UEFI

Thanks about DriveDroid, didn't known it ;)

My picks are,
Colnezilla for linux and Malcolm reflect for windows.

i need something that will work on windows 10 hirens will not

Does the Hiren boot CD and Knoppix have the same functionalities of Kaspersky/Comodo/ Antimalware rescue disk. Antimalware/anti-virus/spyware/trojans/ets, all other pc bases security, operational and data threats?
Thanks,
Dr A Galib

Should also mention the app called 'yumi' which can bundle all of these into a nice bootable USB package (save Drivedroid since it's an android app). I have most of the mentioned bootdiscs on it plus a bootable windows 8.1se (a custom one I download I forget from/by who) that has portableapps.com installed with a wealthy bit of tools and a copy of an AIO Windows 10 install for quick reinstalls and troubleshooting. Just throwing out these ideas for those who want ultimate kits like I do.

• Hi Marcus. Do you have a copy of your compiled disk available for download anywhere?

• I second Lanny, do you have a copy of your ultimate online?

I've been using rollback rx home edition it's a freeware program but it functions like windows system restore. I installed a windows update (how all bad days start) and the computer restarted but it got held up in a BSOD. So I used rollback to go to a point i set before the updates and got back no problem.

This list is solid I've tried a few of these but rollback rx should be on this list!

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If your hard drive is encrypted by Bitlocker, the native Windows Recovery Disks are your only options.

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What you really need is a system image backup - then you can re- install your complete system, data and programs, as it was (when you made the backup. With a USB3 or Gigabit Lan external drive, a full system image takes a relatively short time. Combine that with a daily data backup and never be afraid of corruption or even hardware failure ever again.

Full marks for EASEUS Todo Backup free to do this.

Another one that I like that is geared specifically at both system recovery and malware removal is Kaspersky's Rescue Disk. This bootable, Linux based system can both allow you to browse and transfer files from your Windows partition and get rid of viruses that don't allow your computer to boot normally (such as rootkits or ransomware).

Really wonderful, handy and must-have tools. Thanks for sharing :)

Is Easy Recovery Essentials Safe

Hi. Thanks for this. I'm trying to load Hiren's to a USB rive, but I can't seem to get it to work. Any suggestions?

It works now. Maybe it was just me... Thanks, Tina.

@Gavin:

Your 'Windows 7 Recovery Disc' link returns an error message.

• Thanks for the heads-up! Works for me and doesn't seem like anyone changed the link in the meantime. Maybe the website was down?