Hiren's BootCD PE

Hiren's BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a free comprehensive backup and recovery solution that can help all desktop and laptop users to quickly, easily, and securely boot their stricken PC and gain access to their hardware, local storage, and valuable personal data inside a live preinstalled Windows 10/11 environment located on a bootable USB drive.

To facilitate the easiest live boot experience, Win10 OS (updated to the almost latest public version), the package also features hundreds and hundreds of hardware accessory drivers, which can help the user to instantly get control over their PC without the need to download online drivers for various IO, network, and storage accessories on their PC.

While there are many other applications and OS distributions that can create bootable USB drives, Hiren's BootCD PE is notable because it is fully focused on providing a live OS environment that is powered by Windows 10 and Windows 11, the OS that is best known to novice PC users.

And not only that, the bootable OS is accompanied by an incredible variety of preinstalled freeware apps that can help not only in diagnostics and troubleshooting of various issues (many of them focused on storage and fixing OS issues), but also a wide array of antivirus software, productivity apps, and even multimedia applications.

To create the emergency bootable drive, users will only need to download and burn an ISO file (file size is substantial and clocks in at almost 3GB in size!). The app does not feature any UI or customization option and is instead already coming in a fully ready state. In order to transfer data from inside the ISO package to the USB stick, users will have to take advantage of any available third-party dedicated apps that can work with bootable ISO archives. To make this procedure easier, the creators of Hiren's BootCD PE have also made a small application for that purpose - ISO2USB. This micro-app can be downloaded from the official website of the app.

To start Hiren's BootCD PE, simply restart the PC and choose to boot the system directly from the USB drive. The process of getting the system up and running will then happen automatically, with the live Windows 10/Windows 11 desktop showing in mere seconds (more if the OS has to install drivers for exotic external accessories). From there, users can access a wide array of preinstalled tools, which can help them to get their local OS in order, remove viruses, fix or set up local storage issues, and access or backup their valuable personal data.

Hiren's BootCD PE is 100% FREE and can be used without restrictions on any modern version of Windows OS.