On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:45:08 -0700, Mike Easter <Mi...@ster.invalid>
wrote:
* Full Picture I've included at the end of this file.
Ghost, Smart Boot Manager, and DOS _is on there_ if not another
version, although apparently DOS is not listed, at least as I made or
copied this listing included for later (probably at one point from
HIRENS website).
No H option. HIRENS is removed -- after the HDD is actively
partitoned, that DOS is established for an initial operating with
Format /S or the Dos SYS command, e.g. as _derived_ solely from
HIRENS.
That is the correct interpretation you've given of a Boot Arbitrator,
Boot Manager, i.e. as same category/class to UNIX GRUB (included on
Win7 possibly W10), just that I particularly like Smart Boot Manager
(listed below, and among the several others as well available, whether
opened-sourced and variously then freeware).
Up to now, that is and so far, in getting back to making one active
partition, which can optionally be added Smart Boot Manager (and
possibly more operating systems, although there can be three more
natively set: A HDD, BIOS/CMOS, a computer, Natively, can have no more
than four operating systems on no more than four active partitions. (I
haven't run every Boot Arbitrator out there to say where rule of four
active partitions can be exceeded.) And, of course, for the BIOS to
boot from -- defined and set as the primary boot device, among one or
more HDDs, as the BIOS first preference if and before defaulting to
another -- secondary, tertiary, and quaternary boot preference
devices, et al.
The context puzzle thing is what I've run into, from one HIRENS
Version issue to another HIRENS Version, in getting to a DOS-level:
That would be from HIRENS "Boot to DOS" or however worded (where at:
the DOS menu is with a couple EMS related memory options -and-
importantly HIRENS support for a CD). Once there, HIRENS does its DOS
creation thing to dump itself into DOS, as in period and Your Out
(takes a reboot to reinitiate HIRENS). From HIRENS, to continue,
HIRENS does that, no less, on a Virtual RamDrive of HIRENS making. OK,
then. This is the point point -within DOS-, anyway, that the Format
/S(ystem) or Sys [drive] command[.com] is engaged, transfering system
files HIRENs makes available initially to a store-bought physical
HDD/SSD installed but not yet bootable.
No Linux, no Windows, no nothing. Everything is HIRENS and all for
that one DOS partition. (And no goddamn Floppy, either.-) The DOS
transfer to HDD IS and CAN be done from HIRENS ONLY, nothing else.
The whole point is I need the older HIRENs to do it, make myself a
DOS-able guy, on -some- systems. FDisk/ Sys, HIRENS places on a
RamDrive, that May Not be achievable from a USB virtual Flashstick,
with the DOS options, again, for CD support. HIRENS' generic
interface drivers, there's three or four that HIRENS "attempts" to
load from, for a valid CD to BIOS identity, in case of a Fault and
Fail.
Whereupon I insert another but Earlier HIRENS version, I put
conversely on a CD image, reboot from that CD, go to HIRENS DOS menu
and activate CD support, whereupon it successfully takes without an
error, so then -- I'm dumped off HIRENs at that point with a Valid
RamDrive containing the DOS files needed to make a bootable HDD from
Fdisk or Sys commands. And that's the End of my Case Story: Every
computer, so far at least, I've managed to get this far to a valid DOS
transfer.
Ghost for Linux, G4L. That's a cool thing, for sure. I can remember
before binary transfers. The world was living, at the time, in the
Dark Ages. Everybody had a button on the back of their jeans that
came undone, flopped down and, boom, instant Ass Exposure. That would
be Windows 95, actually, No Cloning, and a back-up meant mostly
floppies and tapes. I actually had to buy (unbeknownst) a POS
Motherboard, which offered a "Free Peter Norton Ghost" as an purchase
incentive. What did I learn -- Never Ever buy another BioStar
Motherboard. The Ghost has saved my butt plenty, though.
Desert time. Here's the pudding:
* Full Picuture:
Hiren's BootCD 7.3 (as I said one of other verions among a few at
least variously on both on Flashstick and CDs)
Partition Tools
Partition Magic Pro 8.05 Best software to partition hard drive
Paragon Partition Manager 6.1.571 Universal tool for partitions
Partition Commander 8.01 partition your hard drive,with undo feature
Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 a boot manager and hard disk
partitioner.
The Partition Resizer v1.3.4 move and resize partitions in 1step
+more.
Smart Fdisk 2.05 a simple harddisk partition manager
SPecial Fdisk SPFDISK a partition tool.
eXtended Fdisk XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition
Disk Clone Tools
ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002) Best software to clone hard drive
Norton Ghost 8.2 Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)
Partition Saver 2.80 A tool to backup/restore partitions.
Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus 3.16b virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to
use menu)
McAfee Antivirus 4.40 a virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to
use menu)
Recovery Tools
Active Partition Recovery 3.0 To Recover a Deleted partition.
Active Uneraser 3.0 recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS
systems.
Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.04 Recover data deleted by virus attack
Winternals Disk Commander 1.1 more than standard deleted-file recovery
utility
TestDisk 5.8 Tool to check and undelete partition.
Lost & Found 1.06 a good old data recovery software.
DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100 An excellent data recovery software.
Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64 data recovery software many options.
Testing Tools
System Speed Test 4.78 tests CPU, harddrive, ect.
PC-Check 5.50 Easy to use hardware tests
Ontrack Data Advisor 5.0 diagnostic for condition of computer
The Troubleshooter 7.02 all kind of hardware testing tool
PC Doctor 3.0 a benchmarking and information tool
Test Cpu/Video/Disk 5.6 a tool to test cpu, video, and disk
RAM (Memory) Testing Tools
DocMemory 2.2b RAM Test utility
GoldMemory 6.64 RAM Test utility
Memtest86+ 1.55 PC Memory Test
Hard Disk Tools
Hard Disk Diagnostic Utilities
Seagate Seatools Desktop Edition 3.02
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools
Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04c
Maxtor PowerMax 4.21
Maxtor amset utility 4.0
Maxtor(or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1
Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.30
Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0
Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 1.25
Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.25
IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.04
IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.80
Gateway GwScan 3.15
MHDD 4.5
HDD Regenerator 1.51 to recover a bad hard drive
Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57 Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.
Norton Disk Doctor 2002 repair damaged disk, or diagnose hard drive.
Norton Disk Editor 2002 disk editing, manual data recovery tool.
Active Kill Disk 1.1 Securely destroys all data on physical drive.
SmartUDM 2.00 Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.
System Information Tools
Aida16 2.12 system information tool, details of all components of the
PC
PCI and AGP info Tool The PCI System information & Exploration tool.
System Analyser version 5.3h View extensive information about hardware
Navr til Software System Information 0.58.6 High-end system
information tool
Astra 5.1 Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant
HwInfo 4.96 a powerful system information utility
PC-Config 9.33 Complete hardware detection of your computer
SysChk 2.46 Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC
CPU Identification utility v1.8 Detailed information on CPU
CTIA CPU Information another CPU information tool
MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools
MBR Work 1.07b a utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR
functions
MBR Tool 2.1.100 backup, verify, restore, edit, remove, display,
re-write...
DiskMan4 all in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more
BootFix Utility Run this utility if you get 'Invalid system disk'
MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1 BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore
MBR
Boot Partition 2.50 add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot
loader
Partition Table Doctor 3.0 tool to repair/modify mbr, bootsector,
partition
Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1 a multi boot manager
Bootmagic 8.0 This tool is for multi boot operating systems
BIOS / CMOS Tools
CMOS 0.93 CMOS Save / Restore Tool
BIOS Cracker 4.6 BIOS password remover (cmospwd)
BIOS Cracker 1.4 BIOS password remover (cmospwc)
BIOS Utility 1.35.0 BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more.
!BIOS 3.20 a powerfull utility for bios and cmos
DISKMAN4 a powerful all in one utility
UniFlash 1.40 bios flash utility
Kill CMOS a tiny utility to wipe cmos
MultiMedia Tools
Picture Viewer 1.94 Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40
filetypes.
QuickView Pro 2.54 movie viewer for dos, supports many format
including divx.
MpxPlay 1.15 a small Music Player for dos
Password Tools
Active Password Changer 2.1 Reset User Password on NT/2000/XP/2003
(FAT/NTFS)
Offline NT/2K/XP Password Changer reset nt/2000/xp administrator/user
password.
NTPWD utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.
NTFS Tools
NTFS Dos Pro 5.0 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
NTFS 4 Dos 1.4 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
NTFS Dos 3.02 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
EditBINI 1.01 to Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition
Dos File Managers
Volkov Commander 4.99 Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support
Dos Command Center 5.1 Classic dos-based file manager.
File Wizard 1.35 file manager - colored, drag and drop copy, move,
delete etc.
File Maven 3.5 Dos file manager PC-to-PC file trx via serial or
parallel cable
FastLynx 2.0 Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability
LapLink 5.0 the smart way to transfer files and directories between
PCs.
Mini Windows 3.11 Back to old days, use it as a file manager
Mini Windows 98 run Hard Drive/ Ram Drive, 7-Zip Defragmenter Image
Viewer, .
Other Tools
DosCDroast beta 2 Dos CD Burning Tools
Universal TCP/IP Network 5.4 MSDOS Network Client via TCP/IP to MS
based
Dos Tools
USB CD-Rom Driver 1 Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive
Universal USB Driver 2 Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass
storage
Interlnk support at COM1 To access another computer from COM port
Interlnk support at LPT1 To access another computer from LPT port
dos utilities
extract.exe pkzip.exe pkunzip.exe unrar.exe rar.exe
ace.exe lha.exe gzip.exe uharcd.exe
mouse.com
attrib.com deltree.exe xcopy.exe
diskcopy.com imgExtrc.exe
undelete.com edit.com fdisk.exe fdisk2.exe fdisk3.exe
lf.exe delpart.exe
wipe.com zap.com format.com
move.exe
more.com find.exe hex.exe debug.exe
split.exe mem.exe
mi.com sys.com smartdrv.exe
xmsdsk.exe killer.exe share.exe scandisk.exe scanreg.exe
guest.exe doskey.exe duse.exe biosdtct.exe setver.exe
ntersvr.exe interlnk.exe loadlin.exe lfndos.exe
doslfn.com
Windows Tools
SpaceMonger 1.4 keeping track of the free space on your computer
Drive Temperature 1.0 Hard Disk Drive temperature meter
Disk Speed1.0 Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool
MemTest 1.0 a Memory Testing Tool
PageDfrg 2.3 System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP
Split Join 1.3.3 a Small File Split-Join Tool
Ghost Image Explorer 7.0 to add/remove/extract files from Ghost image
file
DriveImage Explorer 5.0 to add/remove/extract files from Drive image
file
Active Undelete 5.0 a tool to recover deleted files
Restoration 2.5.14 a tool to recover deleted files
Startup Control Panel 2.8 a tool to edit startup programs
Startup Monitor 1.02 tool detect program registers itself to run at
sys startup
IB Process Manager 1.02 a little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll
info etc.
HijackThis 1.99 a general homepage hijackers detector and remover and
more
TCPView 2.40 a detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints
Unknown Devices 1.2 find unknown devices in Device Manager really are
PCI 32 Sniffer 1.1 device information tool (similar to unknown
devices)
Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06 remove spyware, adware, dialers etc. (must
have tool)
Hiren's BootCD 7.3
http://thanki.tk mirror
http://thanki.cjb.net