It has come to my attention that many people are under the impression that all software included with 'Hirens Boot CD' can be freely used. Our tool DiskPatch is included on that CD and it is a pirated version.  

Please be aware of the fact that due to the inclusion of pirated copyrighted works, Hiren's Boot CD is legally considered "warez" and pirated intellectual property; downloading and/or possessing the CD has various legal implications according to the persons global location such as violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the USA. 

There are risks involved in downloading and using pirated software (numbers are from 2006, I don't expect it to be any better today): 

- 25 percent of the Web sites we accessed offering counterfeit product keys, pirated software, key generators or crack tools attempted to install either malicious software or potentially unwanted software. A significant number of these Web sites attempted to install malicious or unwanted code. 

- 11 percent of the key generators and crack tools downloaded from Web sites contained either malicious or potentially unwanted software. 

- 59 percent of the key generators and crack tools downloaded from peer-to-peer networks contained either malicious software or potentially unwanted software. A significant amount of malicious or unwanted code was present in the key generators and crack tools. 

Apart from the official figures consider this: For a person reasonably familiar with decompiling software and assembly code, it is relatively easy to alter a command to *read* LBA sector contained in the DiskPatch code to a *write* command, effectively wiping your hard disk MBR. Ask yourself to what degree you trust people who crack software to handle in your best interest.

Are you one of those people that thinks, 'well what the heck, those software companies make huge amounts of money anyway'. Well, then you are wrong. Not all software companies are million Dollar operations, housed in large offices and all that. We certainly are not one of those. Speaking for myself: I live in a modest house, I drive a modest car, I do not live up on the hill, I could be the guy living next to you. I spent a good part of the day writing code, doing research and supporting clients. It is not uncommon that I spent several hours on a complicated case. I spent a lot of 'free' time on customer support because many of our clients are US based (I am in the Netherlands). But anyway even when considering bigger companies, big companies employ ordinary people like you and me to write their software and answer their support phones. Bottom line is that by stealing software you are hurting ordinary people.
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Joep

No download link, just to get more web site visitors to get money from Google by fooling it

of course there's no link. Are you stupid? We are the authors of DiskPatch and state this CD contains a pirated version. of course we do not link to the CD.