Hirens Boot CD 15.1 DLC Version 3 45
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I work in a computer repair shop, and we use Hiren's to break passwords on customer's computers. Their are Hiren CDs all over the place of various versions, and although I would think that latest is better, sometimes newer CDs won't have the right drivers to boot, and older ones will. And certain versions don't even have the password breaker, while older ones do, which is even stranger.
I have to admit, the entire place is really messy, and when I say CDs everywhere, I mean that literally. And most of them aren't in any cases, and our work benches are made of some raw wood product, so they are also terribly scratched up. So I'm not even sure if this is due to the versioning, or because our CDs are bad. I was thinking I might download a copy, and keep some CDs in a separate case at work for my use only, but I wanted to make sure that I get a version, or set of versions, that would cover all the drivers I'll need to boot off computers ranging from ancient WinBook laptops to the latest dell gaming rigs, and be able to clear passwords.
As of version 11, Hirens removed all illegal software. He's replaced some of the programs with comparable freeware. Some people have made custom ISOs with some of the programs included in the older versions with the updated programs included in 11.0+. So either stick to pre-11 or made or find a custom version of 11.0+.
I have no idea why newer versions aren't booting. I use Hirens all the time and haven't trouble with booting. Some newer PCs have problems with specific tools on Hirens like MHDD or memtest. In that case, I just put in a standalone disc and it works.
Hello Again Team,
Never long before more trauma hit's my USB.
Well for a split second I was close to ripping my own arms off and feeding them to a duck!
Sorry for WAREZ mention but this test is taken with version 11 (WAREZ FREE) I gather.
SUMMARY OF PROBLEM DISCOVERED.
Today I Went to use the DOS PROGRAMS in hiren's to test a HDD in a laptop. Didn't work! error "HBCD folder not found". It was there and as far I can remember I have NEVER had a problem with HIRENS, it's one of the easiest things to get on USB ever and even it started my whole quest to make MULTI usb's.
I started to doubt my work.
So I took my 2gb test USB and flattened it with RMPREP and prepared as MSDOS disk
with no over rides (as I now do with all my projects) and then copied GRLDR from RMPREP and installed Grub4Dos to PBR! Same problem..........
WTF...so what's going on.........
here is the error in action!
It hangs at the CD driver part then errors with message on the right.
So I eventually going through all the changes I tried to remember I went back to PREPARING the drive as usual and this time installed G4D to the MBR and it works!!!
For the record I have tested a different formatting tool (bootice) and the same thing happens with that too, always has to be from a fresh format;
format disk, pbr install fail........format disk, mbr install works, can't just load between mbr/pbr without any format previous otherwise it wont clear the problem.
I also tested on three machines.
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MAIN QUESTION
You may say, just use MBR then!
No can do as some of the machines I need to boot USB from will only allow me to boot when MBR grub4dos is in use.
I could boot the ISO I suppose but would rather not as I often use the WINTOOLS feature so need the flat folder structure.
Is the anything that can be done about this at all?
Fingers crossed gang
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.
I burned a hiren's boot disc (latest version, I might add) to recover the password from my windows 8.1 computer, I have the BIOS order right and I have legacy mode on. I start the computer up and it goes straight to windows, I then shift + restart > use a device > Internal CD/DVD Drive and I get a "Failed to boot error" (or something along those lines, I'm convinced HP wouldn't be that much of a b**** as to make the exact wording important) I have no idea what to do next.
I don't know a whole lot about it, but I did find it listed on Tom's Guide. I don't know what tools it contains and I may be remembering wrong, but I seem to recall it possibly including some software without permission, though that was some time ago and things may have changed since then (or I could be thinking of a different boot tool).
I was looking for such boot tool because most of our oldest external hard drives are suddenly errors out after I update my windows from version 1903 to 1909 and then to plugged the CAMERA to my laptop for the first time .. that happened and while Malwarebytes and windows security both are running but we are still not able to find out the others causes .
I had the OS reinstalled already but however I Have stupidly to do wiped off the flash drive which was has the windows 10 version 1903 and I make a new files for Windows 1909 and the other problem that there are no any drivers for my windows 10 version 1909 so we do not know for sure if this is one of the other causes or not but we are still trying to figuring out !
I'm pretty sure you can use the Windows 10 media creation tool from here to create a USB to install the original version of Windows 10 with. It shouldn't include the 1909 update. Another option would be to contact your system manufacturer for recovery media.
Most systems will work with 1909 even though there are no driver updates made for Windows 10 in general. (from experience) 1909 is not really different from 1903 hence the small enablement package that moved it from 1903 to 1909.
Ah, I seemed to recall driver compatibility was one of the main reason MS wasn't rolling out the latest update to all systems at one point. I guess they've since resolved it. I recall that for a long time Windows Update refused to download/install the latest build on my system due to incompatible hardware, though they did eventually allow me to install it.
@Hardhead just did a full wipe and all partition removal and installed the latest Windows 10 on a very old computer. Did not install any MFG drivers and Windows 10 included all drivers needed for his hardware. He had a Lexmark printer on the network that auto added the drivers when he scanned to add a printer.
As for Hirens, that is illegal. Please do not discuss downloads or links, etc. as that is against forum policy. There are plenty of sites and resources on the Web where you can get further information.
an update : I forget to mentioned that the OS has the drive is a MBR with windows 1903 . then I had to wipe out all partitions and after this I use the Media creation tool for windows 1909 with the recommended option to make a GPT for the laptop drive , And then I change the BIOS to UEFI to fix a problem here
so SHOULD I reverting back to old version of the WINDOWS 10 ? and why the partition software shows an unknown partition of a newly WINDOWS OS reinstalled ? may be there is other reasons of the problem caused by something else ?
also our newest external has no any problems which they a GPT support I think . but the oldest ones are a MBR support so not sure if the external hard drive were errors out because of changes made to both BIOS and the type of the partitions for the disk of the laptop .
any recommendation for Manufacture that supplying a good External hard disk products for uses and a few for a backup for future uses/ flash drive as a backup for future uses/external hard drive cover/case only/ and Enclosure external hard disk cable for buying and probably for a replacement ?
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)
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