Howto make your precious USB stick bootable, included all goodies from Hiren’s BootCD 9.7 ?
You need this prerequisites:
- HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool
- Grub4DOS Installer (needed file: grldr)
- Grub4DOS Installer 1.1 (grubinst_gui.exe)
- Hiren’s BootCD 9.7 (Recently tested with version 10.0)
Follow steps below:
- Run HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (HPUSBFW.EXE)
- Run Grub4DOS Installer (grubinst_gui.exe)
- copy or extract Hiren’s BootCD 9.7 to USB Stick. (\HBCD and autorun.inf)
- copy grldr (from grub4dos-0.4.3.zip) to USB stick
- make menu.lst, and copy to USB stick:
title Start Hiren's BootCD
find --set-root /HBCD/boot.gz
map --mem /HBCD/boot.gz (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
map --floppies=1
boot - Done
menu.lst for Hirens Boot Cd version 10.0:
timeout 60
default 0
title Boot from Hard Drive
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
title ——————–
root
title Start Hiren’s BootCD
find –set-root /HBCD/boot.gz
map –mem /HBCD/boot.gz (fd0)
map –hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
map –floppies=1
boot
title Mini Windows Xp
find –set-root /HBCD/XPLOADER.BIN
chainloader /HBCD/XPLOADER.BIN
For some odd reason, all the “–” (double hyphen/minuses) are converted to dash characters, rendering Ben’s menu.lst useless (two ASCII 45 characters are converted to one ASCII 150)!
It seems to be an WordPress “feature”, it’s not possible to post this code snippet 1:1 … :-((
I tried to convert the characters to HTML codes, maybe it’ll work:
timeout 60
default 0
title Boot from Hard Drive
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
title --------
root
title Start Hiren'’s BootCD 10.0
find --set-root /HBCD/boot.gz
map --mem /HBCD/boot.gz (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
map --floppies=1
boot
title Mini Windows XP
find --set-root /HBCD/XPLOADER.BIN
chainloader /HBCD/XPLOADER.BIN
One more try:
timeout 60
default 0
title Boot from Hard Drive
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
title --------
root
title Start Hiren's BootCD 10.0
find --set-root /HBCD/boot.gz
map --mem /HBCD/boot.gz (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
map --floppies=1
boot
title Mini Windows XP
find --set-root /HBCD/XPLOADER.BIN
chainloader /HBCD/XPLOADER.BIN
tank you
Thanks,
100%
Thanks it’s working great.
The only menu.lst that is actually working with hiren.
Hi…
I’ve Hiren’s bootCD 10.0 when press F12 and boot from usb flash show me the following:
1- Boot from Hard D
2- Hiren’s BootCD
3- mini Xp Windows
problems:
– show me error when press boot from Hard Drive (do it restart).
– show me error when press mini Xp.
May you solve my problems.
This one worked for me with HBC v15
# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.9.1
color blue/cyan yellow/blue white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 60
default 0
title Boot from Hard Drive
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
title ——–
root
title Mini Windows Xp\nRun Antivirus and other windows programs
# example password: test
# password –md5 $1$gNe0$KZPOE8wNbTNSKOzrajuoB0
find –set-root /HBCD/XP/XP.BIN
#map –mem /HBCD/XP/f6drivers.img (fd0)&&map –hook
chainloader /HBCD/XP/XP.BIN
title Kon-Boot\nWindows (any/blank password) and Linux (kon-usr) Login Without a Password
set kon=konboot.gz
find –set-root /HBCD/Boot/konboot.gz | set iscd=
find –set-root /HBCD/Boot/konbootp.gz && set kon=konbootp.gz
map –mem /HBCD/Boot/%kon% (fd0)
map –hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
if not “%iscd%”==”(cd)” pause –wait=2 HDD SWAP
if not “%iscd%”==”(cd)” map (hd1) (hd0)
map –hook
rootnoverify (fd0)
map –floppies=1