Hiren 39;s Boot Cd 32 Bit Iso

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I want to reset my windows 8 password through Hirens boot cd mini windows xp. It does not detect my hard drive so i can not find the SAM file.

How can i make it see my hard drive so i can fix this?

Unlike what a lot of other forums say, you actually have to go into your PC's bios settings and BOOT TO AHCI (RUN SATA AS AHCI MODE) to make Hirens see your computers C drive. (Confirmed works on Dell NVME m.2 drives)

From here, choose which account you want to change the password > Change the password > Then you need to do two things - Restart the PC but also change the bios back to whichever SATA option it was before and then restart back into Windows.

If nothing works out, you can just use the Ubuntu Live CD to backup your data to another partition and perform a clean install of Windows 8.1. Use the Microsoft Media Creation Tool to download an ISO. Since you are locked out of your main computer which has the Windows 8 key, you can download it on another computer by using a Volume License key pertaining to the appropriate edition (Pro, Home, Single Language, etc). These are freely available on the internet.

Trying to create a Hiren's BootCD on a USB. Not needing anything else such as a dual boot of Ubuntu and Haren or Window's and Haren. All the programs that I can find to complete this either end up directing me on how to create a Ubuntu boot on a usb, or how to do it on Windows. But since it is my Windows computer that I'm trying to fix I need an alternative. Please Help?

After the USB is created, mount it in Nautilus (just click the USB drive icon), go into the HBCD folder, rename the isolinux.cfg file to syslinux.cfg and copy it to the root of the USB, overwriting the existing file. Change the first line of syslinux.cfg from DEFAULT /HBCD/Boot/menu.c32 to DEFAULT menu.c32.

None of the below methods will work.Although you will get a bootable USB, it doesn't chainload anything out of the Grub Menu. This is especially true for the 'revised' edition of Hiren's Boot CD (the one with the mini-version of Windows XP)

Insert your USB drive into your PC and start Ubuntu's partition Manager. Format the drive to FAT32, primairy partition and give a nice label.While you are at it, note the device's mount location (for example /dev/sdb)

Now place the Hirens Boot CD iso-file in a new folder.Right-click the file and choose 'extract here'When it is done, delete the iso file and copy all the rest of the content to the root your USB drive.

There should be 1 folder called HBCD on the drive now, and 4 small other files.Now open the folder called HBCD and copy the files 'grldr' and 'menu.lst' to the root of the drive. Be sure to copy them, do not cut.

get hiren's Iso into your HDD. insert your USB pendrive or whatever, download rufus and proceed with burning the hiren.ISO file into the USB.once you succeeded, you need to restart your pc and check that your BIOS is configured in such a way that your boot order has your harddrive as the last thing to boot from.Also make sure, that as you reboot your pc again, and you have your USB burned and plugged, you dont have anything else that your pc might boot from.Hope it helps (btw, i just did this 30 minutes ago...) Cheers!

Saving a normal Linux user from even needing any external medium.(Though loopbacks can boot isos from other partitions/media too, if you are willing to not use grml-rescueboot and do the GRUB2 config manually.)

I built and booted off Hirens Boot CD v15.2 in order to scan a machine I suspected of containing malware. I booted the 'Mini XP' image and then fired up networking and ran Malwarebytes. Admittedly it said it might not work properly under 'Mini XP' however it seemed to update it's definitions and run a scan just fine. It produced the following results:-

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware needs to be installed in order to run and as said by Rich it needs to run from the real OS not a boot CD. Running it from a CD like that is both against the EULA as well as potentially dangerous due to possible high rate of false positives.

My Dell Optiplex 960 (DDO9XL) is a dual boot, and an important partition on one of the boots disappeared when I was adding a new partition. I've been using Hiren's BootCD PE to access and run some diagnositic utilities trying to find a solution to the problem. This new versions of Hiren's is based on Windows 10, and I haven't been able to access the internet using it's included browsers. The PE Network Manager identifies my network adapter card but lists it as disconnected. I looked in Device Manager and the Network Adapter card is shown as working properly, but the Ethernet Controller is shown as not working.

When I boot the computer using the older Hiren's Boot CD 15.2, or the Ultimate Boot CD...the included browsers are able to connect to the internet. Unfortunately, these browsers are so old that 90% of the websites reject the connection for security reasons. And the Device Manager in the older Hiren's doesn't even show the Ethernet Controller. Which leaves me puzzled about it's function and if the Ethernet Controller has a different name or identification in the older Device Manager (based on the mini WinXP that comes with Hiren's BootCD 15.2) .

I need some help trying to figure out why the newer Hiren's BootCD PE isn't making the network connection, and if the Ethernet Controller is something required with Windows 10 but not with Windows XP?

Fixed the problem...I discovered that the ethernet cable was plugged into an old network adapter card... which worked fine with the older OSes used on the older Boot CDs. The newer Hirens BootCD PE based on Windows 10 wasn't connecting to the network and fooled me by recognizing the onboard Dell network adapter, so I assumed the ethernet cable was plugged into to the onboard adapter. When I saw that it wasn't, I moved the cable to the onboard adapter and immediately there was a network connection and the included browser (FF 78) also connected when I started it.

So, this is good to know if you ever have to use Hiren's BootCD PE to work on a computer problem. Having access to the internet on the problem computer makes things much much easier, and you won't get that using the older Hiren's 15.2 BootCD(Firefox 20 or so) or the Ultimate BootCD (Opera 12).

Someone told me he had Hirens boot CD on his flash drive and it was specially set up to use on a live windows system. Is there anything special one would do if the plan was to use it on a live windows system?

You can still run the hirens setup system on a live windows. Some of the programs does not work on the newer windows systems. Hirens boot cd has the files compressed with 7zip and they are temporarily decompressed to the harddrive when running.

Try burning the iso to a disc and try on the live windows. When you see proof of concept, then follow the tutorial for a flash drive.

I agree that wired ethernet should be much better than using your wireless if possible. If you decide to go the Linux route, just download Ubuntu ISO -14.04-desktop-i386.iso and use the Live function to boot into it without installing. From there you can see your hard drive and copy it to whatever medium you prefer.

try booting xp mode and use one of the tools in the giant menu of stuff, or see if there is a newer version of hirens. I don't want to tell you to mess with the BIOS settings or start pulling parts out of it.

Your reply does not answer the question I posed, because by "where are all these utilities?" I meant "where inside the HBCD15.2 which I downloaded from the hiren official site", not "where on the internet".

I already knew what you linked. Maybe you are right in saying that "perhaps they only put the most used ones on disc but make the others available for download". I did guess so. But they have claimed that "All in one Bootable CD which has all these utilities". Maybe it is not true! Anyway....

I don't think Hirens is really meant for that sort of use i.e. running the tools as standalone, sure you can do it for some but the idea is you download it and burn/copy it to a bootable CD or USB. You then boot your computer using Hirens instead of the OS on your hard drive, where you are given a menu (essentially a boot menu for multiple OS's) where you can make selections on what to run.

It's like a live CD with a choice of environments to start up into and depending on what you choose you can then run some of the utilities (but only the ones pertaining to the environment you selected). The difference here between a normal live CD and this is that Hirens is designed to be able to access the HDD with your regular OS on it for maintenance/troubleshooting etc, it's not really designed as a checkout this OS type thing like a live CD is.

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