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1. WIN systems
1. WINPE(GUI+ERD)
This option will run WINPE. It can be said to be an operating system that can run from a CD, though that was not Microsoft's original purpose in releasing it. It was meant to be part of the OEM preinstallation environment for WINXP, but now everyone has just taken it and used it as a toy, hehe~~~ After startup there are three options. Among them, GUI is the graphical desktop of WINPE made by me. Without a graphical interface, everyone definitely would not be interested in PE, but with a graphical desktop I believe everyone will certainly put it to good use. The biggest advantage of this graphical desktop is that all runnable programs are clear at a glance, and you can use these programs to maintain and rescue your system. In addition, it can also go online, which means you do not need a hard disk; as long as you boot from the CD-ROM drive you can get online and download stuff. Isn't that quite distinctive? Because at present there is no material on this in China; some people only put forward such a concept, and after my efforts it has been realized. Although its functions are not very powerful yet, I believe that if everyone works on it, its functions will gradually grow stronger.
“ERD” will start the Chinese edition of ERD2002. This is actually the ERD system kernel Chinese-localized by domestic experts, and it can realize all ERD functions. “Original WINPE” will start the networking functions of the original WINPE, and it is a command prompt interface.
Below is the media's introduction to WINPE:
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) (Windows preinstallation environment) is based on the WindowsXP Personal Edition kernel running in protected mode, and is a Win32 subsystem with only a small number of services (but very core ones). These services provide Windows installation, implementation of network sharing, automatic low-level process handling, and hardware verification.
Windows PE lets you create and format hard disk partitions, and gives you permission to access NTFS file system partitions and internal networks. This preinstallation environment supports all mass storage devices that can use Windows2000 and WindowsXP drivers, and you can easily add drivers for new devices. It supports file COPY, deletion, partition formatting, and other operations on Fat, Fat32, and NTFS system partitions.
Using Windows PE can help you convert existing MS-DOS-based tools into 32-bit Windows APIs, so that you can maintain these applications more easily in a standard development environment (such as Microsoft's VisualStudio). The hardware diagnostics and other preinstallation tools included in Windows PE all support standard WindowsXP drivers, and you do not need to do any other special work. For program developers, this means they can focus their main energy on the stages of program diagnosis, debugging, and development.
2. ERD COMMANDER
A very practical system maintenance tool for NT/2000/XP system administrators, and also a super killer for system administrators... Why say that? Because many things thought possible only for administrators can now be easily done with ERD. For example, the simplest and most frequently used function is password modification, and that is only one small highlight of its applications...
There is extremely little material on ERD in China. Judging from the production process and trial use, it is actually a kernel-level GUI program for WINDOWS XP, similar to a GUI built on top of the kernel in LINUX. Since it is made on the basis of the WINXP installation CD, it is only an extension program of the WINXP kernel. So it is not hard to understand its compatibility with XP and its powerful functions~~~
When making this CD, the restriction that it could not start without a hard disk was already cracked, so it can start completely without hard disk support. Therefore, ERD Commander can be said to be an operating system that can run from a CD. It has almost the same startup interface as Windows XP, and its user desktop is also very similar to Windows, with the same Start menu as Windows. At the top of the menu are administrative tools (system info 、service and driver manger、locksmith、envent log、volumes、tip/ip configuration). You can use these tools and Windows-like operating methods to achieve local and network management.
On the desktop are My Computer, Network Neighborhood, and the software's copyright information. Everything is graphical, better than any previous solution or tool... If a network card is installed and Windows XP can recognize it automatically, then as long as ERD 2002 can recognize it when starting, you can modify the TCP/IP address, access Network Neighborhood, join a domain and then find the workgroup, or join a domain as well. No domain user password is needed, but when accessing shared network resources, the relevant permissions are required.
3. WINCE This is a miniature operating system Microsoft developed for POCKETPC, used for business office work. It has now been made into an image by domestic companies for use as an embedded system. It is a complete operating system, capable of most daily work, and it can also go online for office work, pretty nice stuff! I grabbed this from a friend, not easy to come by, hehe~~~ Since there is no way to modify its kernel, I only simply replaced the original ugly startup screen.
4. WIN32 A mini WIN3.2 system with a graphical interface, DOS-based and made by China DOS Union. For old machines that cannot run PE or ERD, it can be used for simple file maintenance.
5. MSNUET A very small graphical operating system written by a British engineer. It is not of much use; it is put here just to let everyone see some alternative stuff.
2. DOS systems
Super-powerful English DOS A DOS boot disk made by me personally. It uses a large number of FREEDOS system tools, and also uses the IO.SYS modified by Wengier, the webmaster of China DOS Union, allowing the boot disk to bypass the disk logical lock and start. Thanks to Wengier here. This boot disk is far beyond the original WIN98 disk in both startup speed and functionality, and contains a large amount of useful software. There are detailed instructions after startup.
Super-powerful Chinese DOS A Chinese DOS boot disk made by me personally, for the convenience of friends whose English is not good, with detailed help included.
NTFS2DOSPRO A DOS boot disk that can access and read/write NTFS partitions. After startup it will automatically search for NTFS partitions and display a list of the partitions found. It is currently the best thing under DOS for writing to NTFS partitions.
Original WIN98 disk The original boot disk of WIN98. A very few programs produce errors at runtime with modified system kernels, so this is kept. It is not very useful.
DOS FOR BIOS Pure DOS made for upgrading or modifying BIOS, without loading any useless stuff.
ROMDOS Another DOS system. Because of its good stability and compatibility, it is often used in embedded systems. It is used here because it can break through disk logical locks. If the DOS boot disk I made still cannot break through the logical lock, you can try this.
3. System tools
Ghost2003 Nothing much to say about this; all Xiong forum friends know it, hehe... If you really do not know it, then I really have nothing to say... At present the most widely used system backup/recovery software, already supporting backup and reading of NTFS partitions.
PQDI A partition/disk backup and recovery program produced by PowerQuest. Its functions are even more powerful than GHSOT, and it supports read/write on NTFS partitions, another choice for personal users.
Acronis True Image is software for creating disk images, similar to GHOST and PQDI. It supports hard disk, CDR-W/DVDR-W, 1394, ZIP, IDE, SCSI, USB 1.0/2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), network drives, and other storage media, supports Linux formats, etc., and is more powerful than PQDI and Ghost.
PQDC Another disk image creation program from PowerQuest. What differs from the above three is that it does not generate a file, but instead completely images a partition and hides that partition, so that after the original partition is damaged, the hidden one can be activated and used directly.
Rising Antivirus DOS edition
KVD2003 Jiangmin Antivirus King DOS edition
HWINFO A complete machine detection tool, letting you clearly know the hardware information of your beloved machine.
MEMORYTEST A very good memory testing program. You can easily find out whether your memory is good or bad.
Data Advisor Software specifically used to diagnose computer problems. With it you can quickly find the problems currently existing in the computer. It can diagnose many kinds of computer problems, such as analyzing the system and file structure, testing hard disks and other storage devices, checking the hard disk boot sector, file allocation table, CMOS, system memory, etc.
NORTON DISK DOCTOR, a useful disk checking program.
4. Disk tools
PQMAGIC8.02 The famous PartitionMagic software, the best and most useful software for fast partitioning, non-destructive partition resizing, hard disk error checking, and formatting. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux partitions, etc., and can convert between them.
APExpert2k3 A partition tool produced by ACRONIS, which can be said to be a masterwork that brings everything together. Recommended!
DISKGEN Chinese A very good domestic partitioning and maintenance tool, with detailed Chinese help inside.
SPFDISK Chinese A work by friends from Taiwan, combining partitioning and multi-system boot.
FDISK Chinese The FDISK from WINME, already Chinese-localized, supporting large hard disks over 80G.
SFDISK SMART FDISK, a thing for quick partitioning and formatting.
GDISK A partition program produced by Symantec. This was included in the SYSTEM GHOST CD and has now been taken out separately. Friends accustomed to using FDISK can try this. It has the same interface as FDISK, but its partitioning speed is far beyond what FDISK can reach.
PTSTAR An excellent partitioning and multi-system boot loader tool.
F32 A very small thing but with amazing speed. If you are only partitioning between FAT16 and FAT32, you can use it to improve your efficiency.
Proprietary hard disk management software from various companies.
General edition of DM.
LOWformAT A thing for low-level formatting hard disks.
5. Rescue tools
EasyRecovery is a very powerful hard disk data recovery tool. It can help you recover lost data and rebuild file systems. It will not write anything to your original drive. It mainly rebuilds the file partition table in memory so that data can be safely transferred to other drives. You can recover data from hard disks damaged by viruses or already formatted. This software can recover hard disks larger than 8.4GB. It supports long filenames. Missing boot records, BIOS parameter blocks, partition tables, FAT tables, and boot sectors in damaged hard disks can all be recovered by it.
RecoveryExpert Deluxe is a powerful tool from ACRONIS. It can help you automatically, quickly, and safely repair any deleted or lost disk partition of any file system. When your system cannot boot, you can use this software to repair partitions on a damaged disk. When your hard disk malfunctions and cannot be partitioned or the partition is lost, it can help you quickly recover data and fully protect your data security!
DISKCOMMAND is another fine work from Winternals. It is data recovery software based on the WINNT kernel platform, supporting FAT16/FAT32/NTFS, SCSI, RAID, and long filenames. It can also recover NTFS-encrypted software. It can be said that as long as the hard disk master data area has not been damaged, no matter whether the partition table exists or how seriously it is damaged, it can completely recover almost all files. Even if the file area is damaged, it can still recover the remaining parts to varying degrees. This is something other software cannot do.
Lost and Found An excellent hard disk logical error repair tool produced by PowerQuest. It can easily handle damaged partition tables and damaged directories!
Efficiency Source hard disk bad sector detection At present this is already the best dedicated hard disk bad sector detection program, widely used by individuals, organizations, second-hand dealers, hard disk sellers, system builders, etc. It supports IDE and SCSI hard disks. It supports all hard disk brands currently on the market. This software uses a unique algorithm to perform fast detection of hard disks without damaging any data. Most importantly, this software supports any kind of testing, minimizing hard disk detection time to the greatest extent. All bad sectors are completely exposed under this software, whether or not a seller intentionally hid them. This is the special anti-SARS edition; it can only detect and cannot repair. The full edition costs more than 600 RMB, what a pity!
Bad disk partitioner A program that partitions hard disks with bad tracks. It can automatically repartition a hard disk with bad tracks, setting the bad tracks as hidden partitions and the good tracks as usable partitions, isolating the bad tracks to prevent their spread. But if the bad tracks are too scattered, many scattered usable partitions will be produced. Limited by partitioning rules, only 4 primary partitions can be set, so the program will choose the largest four partitions as usable and set the others as hidden.
HDDSPEED A simple and easy-to-use bad sector repair tool. Red text means bad sectors it cannot repair, blue text means bad sectors it repaired.
Partition table repairer A thing for repairing partition tables. As long as it is a partition table problem, it can help you settle it. Easy to use, and not weak in function.
Acronis Diskedit A very good disk editing program. All information is clear at a glance, a good helper for manually modifying partition tables and boot information.
Norton Diskedit A disk editing program on par with PCTOOLS. No DOS user is unaware of this. I do not want to say too much about it. If you have no foundation, it is better not to use it casually.
1. WIN systems
1. WINPE(GUI+ERD)
This option will run WINPE. It can be said to be an operating system that can run from a CD, though that was not Microsoft's original purpose in releasing it. It was meant to be part of the OEM preinstallation environment for WINXP, but now everyone has just taken it and used it as a toy, hehe~~~ After startup there are three options. Among them, GUI is the graphical desktop of WINPE made by me. Without a graphical interface, everyone definitely would not be interested in PE, but with a graphical desktop I believe everyone will certainly put it to good use. The biggest advantage of this graphical desktop is that all runnable programs are clear at a glance, and you can use these programs to maintain and rescue your system. In addition, it can also go online, which means you do not need a hard disk; as long as you boot from the CD-ROM drive you can get online and download stuff. Isn't that quite distinctive? Because at present there is no material on this in China; some people only put forward such a concept, and after my efforts it has been realized. Although its functions are not very powerful yet, I believe that if everyone works on it, its functions will gradually grow stronger.
“ERD” will start the Chinese edition of ERD2002. This is actually the ERD system kernel Chinese-localized by domestic experts, and it can realize all ERD functions. “Original WINPE” will start the networking functions of the original WINPE, and it is a command prompt interface.
Below is the media's introduction to WINPE:
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) (Windows preinstallation environment) is based on the WindowsXP Personal Edition kernel running in protected mode, and is a Win32 subsystem with only a small number of services (but very core ones). These services provide Windows installation, implementation of network sharing, automatic low-level process handling, and hardware verification.
Windows PE lets you create and format hard disk partitions, and gives you permission to access NTFS file system partitions and internal networks. This preinstallation environment supports all mass storage devices that can use Windows2000 and WindowsXP drivers, and you can easily add drivers for new devices. It supports file COPY, deletion, partition formatting, and other operations on Fat, Fat32, and NTFS system partitions.
Using Windows PE can help you convert existing MS-DOS-based tools into 32-bit Windows APIs, so that you can maintain these applications more easily in a standard development environment (such as Microsoft's VisualStudio). The hardware diagnostics and other preinstallation tools included in Windows PE all support standard WindowsXP drivers, and you do not need to do any other special work. For program developers, this means they can focus their main energy on the stages of program diagnosis, debugging, and development.
2. ERD COMMANDER
A very practical system maintenance tool for NT/2000/XP system administrators, and also a super killer for system administrators... Why say that? Because many things thought possible only for administrators can now be easily done with ERD. For example, the simplest and most frequently used function is password modification, and that is only one small highlight of its applications...
There is extremely little material on ERD in China. Judging from the production process and trial use, it is actually a kernel-level GUI program for WINDOWS XP, similar to a GUI built on top of the kernel in LINUX. Since it is made on the basis of the WINXP installation CD, it is only an extension program of the WINXP kernel. So it is not hard to understand its compatibility with XP and its powerful functions~~~
When making this CD, the restriction that it could not start without a hard disk was already cracked, so it can start completely without hard disk support. Therefore, ERD Commander can be said to be an operating system that can run from a CD. It has almost the same startup interface as Windows XP, and its user desktop is also very similar to Windows, with the same Start menu as Windows. At the top of the menu are administrative tools (system info 、service and driver manger、locksmith、envent log、volumes、tip/ip configuration). You can use these tools and Windows-like operating methods to achieve local and network management.
On the desktop are My Computer, Network Neighborhood, and the software's copyright information. Everything is graphical, better than any previous solution or tool... If a network card is installed and Windows XP can recognize it automatically, then as long as ERD 2002 can recognize it when starting, you can modify the TCP/IP address, access Network Neighborhood, join a domain and then find the workgroup, or join a domain as well. No domain user password is needed, but when accessing shared network resources, the relevant permissions are required.
3. WINCE This is a miniature operating system Microsoft developed for POCKETPC, used for business office work. It has now been made into an image by domestic companies for use as an embedded system. It is a complete operating system, capable of most daily work, and it can also go online for office work, pretty nice stuff! I grabbed this from a friend, not easy to come by, hehe~~~ Since there is no way to modify its kernel, I only simply replaced the original ugly startup screen.
4. WIN32 A mini WIN3.2 system with a graphical interface, DOS-based and made by China DOS Union. For old machines that cannot run PE or ERD, it can be used for simple file maintenance.
5. MSNUET A very small graphical operating system written by a British engineer. It is not of much use; it is put here just to let everyone see some alternative stuff.
2. DOS systems
Super-powerful English DOS A DOS boot disk made by me personally. It uses a large number of FREEDOS system tools, and also uses the IO.SYS modified by Wengier, the webmaster of China DOS Union, allowing the boot disk to bypass the disk logical lock and start. Thanks to Wengier here. This boot disk is far beyond the original WIN98 disk in both startup speed and functionality, and contains a large amount of useful software. There are detailed instructions after startup.
Super-powerful Chinese DOS A Chinese DOS boot disk made by me personally, for the convenience of friends whose English is not good, with detailed help included.
NTFS2DOSPRO A DOS boot disk that can access and read/write NTFS partitions. After startup it will automatically search for NTFS partitions and display a list of the partitions found. It is currently the best thing under DOS for writing to NTFS partitions.
Original WIN98 disk The original boot disk of WIN98. A very few programs produce errors at runtime with modified system kernels, so this is kept. It is not very useful.
DOS FOR BIOS Pure DOS made for upgrading or modifying BIOS, without loading any useless stuff.
ROMDOS Another DOS system. Because of its good stability and compatibility, it is often used in embedded systems. It is used here because it can break through disk logical locks. If the DOS boot disk I made still cannot break through the logical lock, you can try this.
3. System tools
Ghost2003 Nothing much to say about this; all Xiong forum friends know it, hehe... If you really do not know it, then I really have nothing to say... At present the most widely used system backup/recovery software, already supporting backup and reading of NTFS partitions.
PQDI A partition/disk backup and recovery program produced by PowerQuest. Its functions are even more powerful than GHSOT, and it supports read/write on NTFS partitions, another choice for personal users.
Acronis True Image is software for creating disk images, similar to GHOST and PQDI. It supports hard disk, CDR-W/DVDR-W, 1394, ZIP, IDE, SCSI, USB 1.0/2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), network drives, and other storage media, supports Linux formats, etc., and is more powerful than PQDI and Ghost.
PQDC Another disk image creation program from PowerQuest. What differs from the above three is that it does not generate a file, but instead completely images a partition and hides that partition, so that after the original partition is damaged, the hidden one can be activated and used directly.
Rising Antivirus DOS edition
KVD2003 Jiangmin Antivirus King DOS edition
HWINFO A complete machine detection tool, letting you clearly know the hardware information of your beloved machine.
MEMORYTEST A very good memory testing program. You can easily find out whether your memory is good or bad.
Data Advisor Software specifically used to diagnose computer problems. With it you can quickly find the problems currently existing in the computer. It can diagnose many kinds of computer problems, such as analyzing the system and file structure, testing hard disks and other storage devices, checking the hard disk boot sector, file allocation table, CMOS, system memory, etc.
NORTON DISK DOCTOR, a useful disk checking program.
4. Disk tools
PQMAGIC8.02 The famous PartitionMagic software, the best and most useful software for fast partitioning, non-destructive partition resizing, hard disk error checking, and formatting. It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux partitions, etc., and can convert between them.
APExpert2k3 A partition tool produced by ACRONIS, which can be said to be a masterwork that brings everything together. Recommended!
DISKGEN Chinese A very good domestic partitioning and maintenance tool, with detailed Chinese help inside.
SPFDISK Chinese A work by friends from Taiwan, combining partitioning and multi-system boot.
FDISK Chinese The FDISK from WINME, already Chinese-localized, supporting large hard disks over 80G.
SFDISK SMART FDISK, a thing for quick partitioning and formatting.
GDISK A partition program produced by Symantec. This was included in the SYSTEM GHOST CD and has now been taken out separately. Friends accustomed to using FDISK can try this. It has the same interface as FDISK, but its partitioning speed is far beyond what FDISK can reach.
PTSTAR An excellent partitioning and multi-system boot loader tool.
F32 A very small thing but with amazing speed. If you are only partitioning between FAT16 and FAT32, you can use it to improve your efficiency.
Proprietary hard disk management software from various companies.
General edition of DM.
LOWformAT A thing for low-level formatting hard disks.
5. Rescue tools
EasyRecovery is a very powerful hard disk data recovery tool. It can help you recover lost data and rebuild file systems. It will not write anything to your original drive. It mainly rebuilds the file partition table in memory so that data can be safely transferred to other drives. You can recover data from hard disks damaged by viruses or already formatted. This software can recover hard disks larger than 8.4GB. It supports long filenames. Missing boot records, BIOS parameter blocks, partition tables, FAT tables, and boot sectors in damaged hard disks can all be recovered by it.
RecoveryExpert Deluxe is a powerful tool from ACRONIS. It can help you automatically, quickly, and safely repair any deleted or lost disk partition of any file system. When your system cannot boot, you can use this software to repair partitions on a damaged disk. When your hard disk malfunctions and cannot be partitioned or the partition is lost, it can help you quickly recover data and fully protect your data security!
DISKCOMMAND is another fine work from Winternals. It is data recovery software based on the WINNT kernel platform, supporting FAT16/FAT32/NTFS, SCSI, RAID, and long filenames. It can also recover NTFS-encrypted software. It can be said that as long as the hard disk master data area has not been damaged, no matter whether the partition table exists or how seriously it is damaged, it can completely recover almost all files. Even if the file area is damaged, it can still recover the remaining parts to varying degrees. This is something other software cannot do.
Lost and Found An excellent hard disk logical error repair tool produced by PowerQuest. It can easily handle damaged partition tables and damaged directories!
Efficiency Source hard disk bad sector detection At present this is already the best dedicated hard disk bad sector detection program, widely used by individuals, organizations, second-hand dealers, hard disk sellers, system builders, etc. It supports IDE and SCSI hard disks. It supports all hard disk brands currently on the market. This software uses a unique algorithm to perform fast detection of hard disks without damaging any data. Most importantly, this software supports any kind of testing, minimizing hard disk detection time to the greatest extent. All bad sectors are completely exposed under this software, whether or not a seller intentionally hid them. This is the special anti-SARS edition; it can only detect and cannot repair. The full edition costs more than 600 RMB, what a pity!
Bad disk partitioner A program that partitions hard disks with bad tracks. It can automatically repartition a hard disk with bad tracks, setting the bad tracks as hidden partitions and the good tracks as usable partitions, isolating the bad tracks to prevent their spread. But if the bad tracks are too scattered, many scattered usable partitions will be produced. Limited by partitioning rules, only 4 primary partitions can be set, so the program will choose the largest four partitions as usable and set the others as hidden.
HDDSPEED A simple and easy-to-use bad sector repair tool. Red text means bad sectors it cannot repair, blue text means bad sectors it repaired.
Partition table repairer A thing for repairing partition tables. As long as it is a partition table problem, it can help you settle it. Easy to use, and not weak in function.
Acronis Diskedit A very good disk editing program. All information is clear at a glance, a good helper for manually modifying partition tables and boot information.
Norton Diskedit A disk editing program on par with PCTOOLS. No DOS user is unaware of this. I do not want to say too much about it. If you have no foundation, it is better not to use it casually.
