![]() ![]() Always use a freshly formated stick where nothing has been deleted. For example if a small file is deleted and subsequently a larger file is written, chances are, the larger file will be fragmented. ![]() Fragmentation happens when files are written in space left by the deletion of other files. If an iso image is fragmented it will not boot. When transferring iso images to bootable USB sticks or drives, care must be taken so that iso images are written contiguously. Warning: If you use a method other than the ones described here, please note that simply copying the files over to an already used USB stick is unlikely to work and some utilities may fail to boot. We describe how to partition a USB flash drive and then persuade Windows to recognize the partitions. Multipartitioning USB flash drives has some difficulty because Windows can only recognize the first partition. ![]() Now syslinux can boot from NTFS partitions (it is even possible to boot HBCD from large external hard disks) so we describe this option too. Until recently, because of the limitations of the bootloader syslinux, USB flash drives could only be formated FAT32. The restored edition of Hiren s Boot CD employs a combination of the bootloaders syslinux and grub4dos so the method described in Hiren s web page 1 does not work for the restored edition. The quickest and most accurate method is to use Linux command line tools, however Windows can be also used with equally good results. 1 Make a Bootable USB Flash Drive from the Restored Edition of Hiren s Boot CD Contents 1 Linux Method 2 2 Windows Method 3 3 Alternative Windows Method (RMPrepUSB) 4 4 HBCD on a Partitioned USB Flash Drive Create the partitions Format the partitions and transfer HBCD to USB Making the second partition visible to Windows Computers without optical drive 10 Introduction We describe how the files of the restored/extended Hiren s BootCD (HBCD) can be transferred to a USB memory stick (flash drive) and how the later can be made bootable using exclusively tools provided by the HBCD. ![]()
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