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Launching Hirens BootCD from USB Flash Drive

Mon, Jan 10, 2011

To launch Hirens BootCD from USB flash drive, first of all, your BIOS settings should be configured in order to
change the boot order of your computer to USB drive. If you are having problem on changing boot order in BIOS,
please refer Change the Boot Order in BIOSdocument. Please note that some computers may not support
booting from USB drive and the steps below only works for the versions of Hirens BootCD 9.7 or newer.

Step1: Formating USB Flash Drive

Please note that, all data on your usb flash drive will be lost. Before doing this step, dont forget to backup your
files on the usb flash drive.
1. Connect a 512 MB or above flash drive.
2. Download and run USB Disk Storage Format (34 KB). Follow the steps in the screenshots below:

Step2: Installing Grub4Dos to USB Flash Drive

Download grub4dos.zip (187 KB) to desktop. Follow the steps below:

1. Right click to the zip file and click 'Extract All...'

3. Click Next to extract archive contents

2. Click Next

4. Click Finish

Now open grub4dos folder created on your desktop. Run grubinst_gui.exe inside of grub4dos folder and follow
the steps below:

1. Run grub4dos

2. Click 'Run' on if you face with a Security Warning

window

3. If you are not sure which disk is your USB Flash Drive, select the drive
with the same size with your USB flash drive.

4. Installation of grub4dos completed. Press Enter to close the window.

Step3: Copy Files to USB Flash Drive

1. Put Hirens BootCD (9.7 or newer) into the CD Drive.
2. Copy everything from CD to USB Flash Drive.
3. Copy grldr and menu.lst (from HBCD folder of the CD) to the usb drives root folder. Finally contents of your
USB Flash Drive should look like as below:

Final View of USB Flash Drive Contents

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