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Hiren's Boot CD with UEFI support?

I am a long term user of Hiren's Boot CD, but the CD does not support booting on UEFI/EFI/SecureBoot hardware, is there some kind of update/patch to apply to the cd image to be able to boot without BIOS? Can I make this myself? (By putting some…
Gizmo
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windows 8 password reset

A friend of mine has accidentally lost her windows 8 password. I tried booting a live USB Hiren's & Windows windows unlocker enterprise (windows xp based live disks). The problem is that the normal mode is UEFI based (in BIOS) and it does not allow…
Gagan93
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Add Ghost32 to Hiren’s CD 15.2

Hi I need add ghost32 to Hiren’s CD v15.2 Windows Mini XP. I found this tutorial. My steps: With HBCDCustomizer I extract ISO Create folder C:\Ghost Copy Ghost32.exe and uharc.exe to C:\Ghost folder uharc create file Ghost32.uha Ghost32.uha need to…
Jan
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When I run Acronis on Hiren I cannot see the external hard drive plugged to USB port

I have just bought a new laptop Lenovo G50-80 with Windows 8. I want to make an image of C: with the Acronis that comes with Hiren (True Image 2012). It always worked with all my other computers which had Windows XP, but on my new laptop I plug the…
Manuel
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Not able to boot into Windows after stopping chkdsk abruptly (started and stopped in cmd)

I have an Acer Predator Helios 300. Boot Mode have 2 options: UEFI and Legacy. And the system has 2 drives: A 128G SSD and a 1TB HDD. And the system is not able to boot up. What I've tried: Automatic Repair - Ends on a black screen witn a…
Ghost
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Repair a HDD belonging to a UEFI computer in a Non-UEFI computer

I have an HP All-in-one PC that has UEFI firmware. For some strange reason, the computer gets hung and reset itself. After reset, booting was not possible because no O.S. was detected. I mounted that disk in other PC, an old one, that does not have…
jstuardo
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Updating programs on hiren boot disk

Im trying to update ccleaner and other programs that come bundled with hiren boot disk, how easy is it and how is it done?
iaindude
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How do I run ccleaner when using Hirens Boot CD?

I just tried running it and it was analyzing the Hiren CD, how do I analyze my main drive while using Hirens boot cd?
user443167
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Unmountable boot volume xp - halfway the loading screen

Power went off. When I rebooted I started receiving unmountable_boot_volume on windows loading screen (that is windows started loading progress bar and all, then stopped, kept trying to read some file in the drive audibly failing (blip pause blip…
Mr_and_Mrs_D
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Can I add other free antivirus programs, like Dr.Web, Malwarebytes or HitmanPro to the pre-installed ones (ESET and McAfee) in Hiren's BootCD PE?

Can I add other free antivirus programs, like Dr.Web, Malwarebytes or HitmanPro to the pre-installed ones (ESET and McAfee) in Hiren's BootCD PE? I need up-to-date antivirus definitions, and Hiren didn't updated since 2024.
Momo
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How to use Recuva on a .mrimg Macrium Reflect image?

I'm trying to recover deleted data for a friend. They accidentally formatted their hard drive (I'm hoping it was just a quick format). The drive is currently in an external case accessed by USB. When I targeted the drive using CCleaner's Recuva tool…
SketchBookGames
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Can I install Windows 10 Media Creation Tool through Rufus on Hiren's?

While booted into Hirens I downloaded Windows 10 Media Creation Tool and tried to extract it through Rufus to create a USB boot drive. When in Rufus and I go to find the file it doesn't show up. When I try to start the media creation tool I get a…
3DAYSINTOREPAIR
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Issues trying to boot Hirens BootCD on a HP with TPM and Bitlocker enabled

I am trying to boot Hirens BootCD on a HP with TPM and Bitlocker enabled. The boot will freeze after initializing the boot process. Secure boot is disabled. Neither secure boot nor without secure boot changes its behaviour. I am booting with…
OliWie
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Hiren's Boot PE, NVMe & RAID - a RAW deal

On HP laptop Windows 11, I booted into Windows perfectly normally, then I rebooted into Hirens Boot PE, opened Aomei Backupper, did not do any action in that application, then I opened Disk Management, and the C partiton had become a RAW filesystem,…
user1524201
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How does resetting Windows passwords without authentication work

I've come across this tool "Hiren" , and it allows me to enable the builtin Administrator, as well as change passwords of local users just by booting up the USB stick with its ISO. I couldn't find any explanation on why or how this works. Isn't this…
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