![]() With Hiren’s Boot CD, you can perform all these recovery tasks plus a ton more with relative ease. It’s the year 2012 and boot CD’s were so 4-5 years ago. Let’s take a look at how we can boot the entire Hiren’s Boot CD right from our USB thumb drive, the easy way. You can find more information about Hiren’s Boot CD from this past article. ![]() The only thing you really need, device wise, is just a USB thumb drive. Preferably, this thumb drive should be at least 1GB but anything higher is definitely doable as well. The advantage of booting Hiren’s Boot CD (HBCD) from a thumb drive is due to the fact that you do not have to dedicate the drive solely to booting HBCD! If you have a 10GB USB stick, HBCD will take about 1GB. You can use the other 9GB for storing your personal files or other things. In fact, I would recommend you to use a bigger thumb drive because if you’ll be recovering files from an ailing laptop or computer, you’ll need some place to store them. You USB stick should make a good temporary location, unless of course the user has heaps and heaps of data to recover. ![]() USB sticks are so cheap that you can get a 32GB one for less than $20. Once you have your thumb drive ready, it’s time to get down to business. At the time of this writing, HBCD is at version 15.1.īooting HBCD from a USB Stickįirst off, you’ll need to download a copy of Hiren’s Boot CD itself. Once downloaded, simply extract the file with your favorite archiving utility such as 7-Zip (Windows 7 can also extract zip files as well natively). Within the download are a bunch of other files. ![]() What we are interested in is just the ISO image of HBCD. #Hirens boot cd usb unetbootin password#.open this "syslinux.cfg" file with notepadįinally, in order to be able to boot your computer from your bootable USB key, you must configure your motherboard BIOS so that your computer will attempt to boot first on your new bootable USB key.Warning : by default, when you create a bootable USB key of Hiren Boot CD, there is a problem with the "syslinux.cfg" file created by UNetbootin. UNetbootin then installs "syslinux" on your USB key to make it bootable. Wait while the files are extracted from the iso file to your USB key. select the letter of your USB key at the bottom of the program.click on the "." button to select the Hiren Boot CD iso file.The 2nd free program that you can use is UNetbootin. Create bootable USB drive of Hiren Boot CD 15.2 with UNetbootin Your Hiren Boot CD bootable USB key has been created.Īs you can see, Hiren Boot CD has been copied to your USB key.Ĭhange your motherboard BIOS boot order to boot from your bootable USB key and this will be displayed.Ģ. Wait while the files from the Hiren Boot CD iso file are copied to your USB key. Rufus installs Syslinux on your USB key to make it bootable. Rufus resets your USB key by erasing the partitions on it. Leave this option at default and click Start.Īs indicated by Rufus, all data on your USB drive will be destroyed. Select the Hiren Boot CD iso file and click Open.īy default, the file system used will be "FAT32". Once the program has downloaded, launch it and accept the automatic check for updates if you wish. The 1st free and easy to use program that you can use is : Rufus. Create bootable USB drive of Hiren Boot CD 15.2 with Rufus Create bootable USB drive of Hiren Boot CD 15.2 with UNetbootinġ.Create bootable USB drive of Hiren Boot CD 15.2 with Rufus.Hiren Boot CD 15.2 is a very well-known live CD which has a mini XP which is very useful for older PCs and which can obviously be converted into a bootable USB key using various programs if you wish.
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