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Launching Hiren’s BootCD from USB Flash Drive

Hiren’s BootCD from USB Flash Drive


To launch Hiren’s BootCD from USB flash drive, first of all, your BIOS settings should be configured in order to change the boot order of your computer to USB drive. If you are having problem on changing boot order in BIOS, please refer Change the Boot Order in BIOS document. Please note that some computers may not support booting from USB drive and the steps below only works for the versions of Hiren’s BootCD 9.7 or newer.


Step1: Formating USB Flash Drive

 

1. Connect a 512 MB or above flash drive.
2. Download and run USB Disk Storage Format (34 KB). Follow the steps in the screenshots below: 



Step2: Installing Grub4Dos to USB Flash Drive

 

Download grub4dos.zip (187 KB) to desktop. Follow the steps below:

1. Right click to the zip file and click 'Extract All...'

2. Click Next

3. Click Next to extract archive contents


4. Click Finish

Now open ‘grub4dos’ folder created on your desktop. Run ‘grubinst_gui.exe’ inside of grub4dos folder and follow the steps below: 




1. Run grub4dos


2. Click 'Run' on if you face with a Security Warning window


3. If you are not sure which disk is your USB Flash Drive, select the drive with the same size with your USB flash drive.



4. Installation of grub4dos completed. Press Enter to close the window.

Step3: Copy Files to USB Flash Drive

 


1. Put Hiren’s BootCD (9.7 or newer) into the CD Drive.
2. Copy everything from CD to USB Flash Drive.
3. Copy grldr and menu.lst (from HBCD folder of the CD) to the usb drive’s root folder. Finally contents of your USB Flash Drive should look like as below:




Final View of USB Flash Drive Contents

 

 


Hiren’s BootCD 14.0 495MB

Hiren’s BootCD 




 

Hiren’s BootCD 14.0


Hiren’s BootCD is a completely free bootable CD that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations like analyzing, recovering and fixing your computer even if the primary operating system can not be booted. It is a great resource for anyone with computer problems who is having trouble accessing the internet to download programs in an attempt to fix it. It has a multitude of tools divided into a number of categories like partitioning tools, backup, recovery and BIOS/CMOS tools to name a few. With some simple knowledge about what is contained on the CD, you can use it to repair many problems computer like hard drive failure, virus infections, partitioning, password recovery and data recovery.

Hiren’s BootCD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UI’s differences and options in what they can do.Hiren’s BootCD is a Boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. It is a Bootable CD; thus, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted.

Hiren’s BootCD – All in one Dos Bootable CD which has all these utilities: Antivirus Tools, Archivers, Backup Tools, BIOS / CMOS Tools, Browsers / File Managers, Cleaners, Editors / Viewers, FileSystems Tools, Hard Disk Tools, MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools, Ms Dos Tools, Network Tools, Optimizers, Partition Tools, Password Tools, Process Tools, Recovery Tools, Registry Tools, Remote Control Tools, Security / Encryption Tools, Startup Tools, System Information Tools, Testing Tools, Tweakers, etc.

Changes From Version 13.2 to 14.0

New Added Softwares:

  • HBCD Folders restructured.
  • Dialupass 3.16: Find and extract Username, Password, and Domain of DialUp/RAS/VPN networking in Windows (Windows Freeware).
  • Image For Windows 2.62a: Backup and restore utility that creates a snapshot of a selected partition or volume, and saves it to disk, or burns it directly to most DVD+RW+R-R-RW or CD-R/RW drives (Windows Shareware).
  • Parted Magic 6.1 (replaced RIPLinux): Linux based rescue environment with lots of applications to manage partitions, backup and recovery such as GParted, Parted, Partition Image, TestDisk, Partimage, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, Firefox, ClamAV, GSmartControl, SimpleBurn, dd, ddrescue, with extensive collection of file system tools are also included, supports the following: btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs (Linux Freeware).
  • WebBrowserPassView 1.11 (replaced foxpass/iepass): Allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Internet explorer Web browsers (Windows Freeware).

Removed Softwares:

WinKeyfinder

Updated Softwares:

Autologon 3.01, Autoruns 10.07, Avira AntiVir Personal (24-05-2011), Calcute 11.5.15, ComboFix (24-05-2011), Don’t Sleep 2.31, Dos – Minor bugs fixed, Dr.Web CureIt! Antivirus (24-05-2011), GRUB4DOS 2011-04-23, isolinux/memdisk 4.04, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.50.1 (24-05-2011), MiniXp – Added/updated LAN/WLAN/Storage drivers, msi installer support and other minor improvements, Offline NT Password 2011-05-11, PhotoRec 6.12, Process Explorer 14.12, Process Monitor 2.95, RKill (24-05-2011), Spybot – Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (24-05-2011), SpywareBlaster 4.4 (24-05-2011), SumatraPDF 1.1, SuperAntispyware 4.53.1000 (24-05-2011), System Explorer 2.8.1, TCPView 3.04, TestDisk 6.12






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