Yes, the version based on Windows XP. No, it hasn’t been updated since 2012. And yes, I am about to argue that it should still live in every technician’s toolkit.
Enter the relic. The dinosaur. The unsung hero: Hirens Boot Cd 15.4
Modern tools like Medicat USB or Sergei Strelec are technically "better" because they support UEFI and NVMe. But they are slow. They take 8GB of space. They require powerful computers. Yes, the version based on Windows XP
Here is why this "obsolete" software remains the Swiss Army knife of data rescue. Hirens Boot Cd 15.4