HACK Hiren's BootCD 10.5
Elliott Davis
I have seen many people that use have Hiren's BootCD and saw a Youtube video in which an MBR infection was removed using Kaspersky TDSS Killer to check for one and booting up with Hiren's to remove. It did look like all they did was repair the MBR though. I tried to download it and they want my credit card information and other person information that I will not disclose to a web site that I don't trust. Eset won't allow me to download at other web sites. How does anyone safely download this? Can Hiren's BootCD be trusted?
When you say "Peer to Peer," do you mean Bit Torrent? That sounds scary. Eset didn't like the Bit Torrent site, but I was able to download Bit Torrent.exe and scanned it. I'm not going to execute until I hear from someone to let me know it's okay. I have Kaspersky TDSS Killer along with the Kaspersky rescue disk.
I believe I have at least moderate experience with computers, networking, storage, security, etc... as I have been building my own computers since the mid 1990s. Family and friends have been bringing their computers to me to repair for years. I'm not formally trained and learn as I go.
The main reason I'm here is because of the last computer I worked on. It was infected with the ICE FBI worm. It was completely locked up except the command prompt. Someone brought another computer that had the same thing and I repaired the MBR with Partition Commander from Avanquest which I believe used to be Partition Magic, and the operation system was toast. That's usually the case with me when a computer is locked up and won't boot to the operating system. I delete the partition, recreate it, format it, and then install the operating system. I also pull the hard drive out, and connect it to my work computer using a Hard Drive to USB adapter to back up the data.
I can repair computers that will boot to the operating system by repairing the MBR and then using sfc /scannow to make sure the system files are okay. I then install a trial version of Eset Smart Security plus Malwarebytes and scan it with them.
Thanks. I am very careful when I download software. I should have said Eset didn't like the website, but there were no warnings when I downloaded the Bit Torrent file. It's been securely deleted. I don't understand. If Hiren's BootCD is so good, why is it so hard to safely download it?
I went back to hxxp://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ and looked more closely and didn't click on the green download bar. I went to the bottom of the page and clicked on Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip and had no problem downloading it as far as a warning about the mirror site I was downloading from. I did however, get two warning from ESS that the file itself had potentially malicious files in it. I clicked on continue because I know that just having a file sitting on my hard drive won't infect my computer. I noticed that hxxp://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ has information about why anti-virus programs will warn you about possible malicious programs contained in the Zip file.
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.)
First of all, I'd like to thank Hiren for developing such a great BootCD, and I'd like to thank all the Hiren's BootCD fans who mirror the BootCD project to help the community solve their computer problems. And just like the fans of Hiren's BootCD who revived Hiren's BootCD PE and made it widely available because they cared about and loved Hiren's BootCD, I would like to announce that I have created VeraCrypt BootCD PE with the same spirit.
VeraCrypt BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a VeraCrypt distribution based on Hiren's BootCD PE Windows 10 21H1 (build 19043.928) that can be run from a DVD, USB thumb drive, or local drive. Developed by Hiren's BootCD fans, with Hiren's BootCD PE v1.0.2 we have added VeraCrypt Portable version 1.26.7 and the HDD Raw Copy Tool, Password Tech and Crypto Notepad, the smallest but best free tools that can help you use VeraCrypt. The useful tools inside Hiren's BootCD, which have helped many people solve computer-related problems over the years, can help you solve many problems with VeraCrypt, and are easy to access for simple documents, photos, and videos. Hiren's BootCD PE does not contain any malicious software, nor does it contain any pirated software: VeraCrypt, the newest addition to Hiren's BootCD PE, HDD Raw Copy Tool, which accurately duplicates the encrypted dive bits of an entire HDD disk, Password Tech, a professional password generator and password manager with full Unicode support, formerly known as PWGen, and Crypto Notepad, which is perfect for writing down hints about passwords and keyfiles in an encrypted manner, are 100% free and open source, so you can be sure that only safe, legal and free software is included inside VeraCrypt BootCD PE. VeraCrypt BootCD PE is a disk encryption and emergency disc, so we didn't include any software that doesn't help with disk encryption, and based it on Hiren's BootCD PE, which includes only the best free tools and the minimum free tools for emergencies.
VeraCrypt BootCD PE supports 64-bit and UEFI boots and requires a minimum of 2 GB RAM. Following the latest release of the Hiren's BootCD PE project, x64 v1.0.2, VeraCrypt BootCD PE also incorporates 195 new drivers in the IO, Network and Storage categories. Additional drivers are currently being developed by Hiren's BootCD fans, and if your WIFI or Ethernet card is not recognised by your version of VeraCrypt BootCD PE, please contact Hiren's BootCD PE with your hardware model ( hirensbootcd.org/contact/) and Hiren's BootCD fans will try to add the necessary drivers in a new release. After booting, VeraCrypt BootCD PE will try to install drivers such as graphics, sound, wireless and Ethernet cards for your hardware, so you can connect to a WIFI or Ethernet network. However, our recommendation is to "DISCONNECT THE ETHERNET CABLE OR WIFI ADAPTER" to avoid memory leaks, as UEFI has its own network stack. Also, some RAM chips do not erase their data when switched off, so we recommend removing the RAM a short time after booting if you need a high level of security, but may cause system failure or hardware damage.
VeraCrypt BootCD PE can use OS image flash software such as Rufus, Balena Etchervs, Ventoy, etc. to create a bootable USB drive or SD card in the same way as Hiren's BootCD PE. Based on Hiren's BootCD, which was developed in the days when all desktops and laptops came with CD-ROMs, VeraCrypt BootCD PE can also create error-free boot media from CDs or DVDs, the traditional method of OS image flashing, via Windows Burn disc image. Because the ISO file size of VeraCrypt BootCD PE is larger than a standard CD, we recommend burning it to a DVD with a typical capacity of 4.7 gigabytes. However, if past versions of OS image flash software have been coded to leave an audit trail on a USB drive or SD card, and you're not sophisticated enough to connect it to your computer via a write-protection device every time, we recommend using the "BURN TO DVD WITH MASTERED OPTION" instead of a USB drive or SD card. If you want to burn to a CD that is smaller than a DVD, you will need to delete the unnecessary programs in the ISO file of VeraCrypt BootCD PE and burn it to fit the CD capacity. If you selectively burn files to a CD or DVD, make sure that the CD or DVD burn option is set to burn as a master CD, not as an editable media like a USB drive, to prevent any audit log entries that may be generated by the programs in VeraCrypt BootCD PE from being written to the CD or DVD ( Digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-burn-a-cd/). Of course, by default, any data written to VeraCrypt BootCD PE will fail with an error message, but it is better to physically block data recording just in case.
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