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4.3 Installation with other operating systems

After having created a bootable floppy disk, you can start HDShredder on any PC as described

in chapter 5.2 Starting the program.

4.3.2 Creating a bootable CD/DVD

The HDShredder software package contains a so called ISO image in the file hdshredder.iso. It

can be used to create a bootable HDShredder CD with any operating system using a CD writ -

ing software of your choice as far as it supports creating CDs from an ISO image. Further in-

formation can be found in the manual of your CD writing software.

• Extract the file hdshredder.iso from the HDShredder software package.

• Start your CD writing software and choose Create CD from image file (or similar, according

to the respective CD writing software)

• Specify the file hdshredder.iso as image file.

• Insert a blank CD into the according drive.

• Write the CD.

Tip: The easiest way of creating a bootable HDShredder CD under Linux is using the software

tool cdrecord with the following syntax: cdrecord hdshredder.iso.

After having accomplished these steps you have created a bootable HDShredder CD. From

this CD you can start HDShredder directly on any PC with a bootable CD/DVD drive as de-

scribed in 5.2 Starting the program.

Note: Generally the instructions provided above for creating a bootable CD using the ISO im-

age can also be adopted to DVDs. However, some CD/DVD writing software refuses writing

an ISO image to a DVD. The HDShredder installation program (4.2 Installation with Win-

dows) for example also writes DVDs without any problem. Booting from a DVD created this

way also works smoothly.