HBCD is basically a single repository of some of the most used freeware utilities on the Internet. For simplicity sake, extract the ISO image to your Desktop. What we are interested in is just the ISO image of HBCD. Within the download are a bunch of other files. Once downloaded, simply extract the file with your favorite archiving utility such as 7-Zip (Windows 7 can also extract zip files as well natively).

At the time of this writing, HBCD is at version 15.1. Booting HBCD from a USB Stickįirst off, you’ll need to download a copy of Hiren’s Boot CD itself. Once you have your thumb drive ready, it’s time to get down to business. USB sticks are so cheap that you can get a 32GB one for less than $20. You USB stick should make a good temporary location, unless of course the user has heaps and heaps of data to recover. In fact, I would recommend you to use a bigger thumb drive because if you’ll be recovering files from an ailing laptop or computer, you’ll need some place to store them. You can use the other 9GB for storing your personal files or other things. The advantage of booting Hiren’s Boot CD (HBCD) from a thumb drive is due to the fact that you do not have to dedicate the drive solely to booting HBCD! If you have a 10GB USB stick, HBCD will take about 1GB. Preferably, this thumb drive should be at least 1GB but anything higher is definitely doable as well. The only thing you really need, device wise, is just a USB thumb drive. You can find more information about Hiren’s Boot CD from this past article. Let’s take a look at how we can boot the entire Hiren’s Boot CD right from our USB thumb drive, the easy way. It’s the year 2012 and boot CD’s were so 4-5 years ago. With Hiren’s Boot CD, you can perform all these recovery tasks plus a ton more with relative ease. What about a user who forgot their Windows log on password? You would ask the person to use their password reset disc that they created when they first got their shiny new computer but I’m sure you’ll just get a blank stare as well. You would ask the person to simply recover the file from a backup but we all know how that’s going to go right? The user probably never even have thought of putting the words “important files” and “backup” in the same sentence. How about taking it one step further and actually performing all kinds of different repairs on that ailing computer? Perhaps a user accidentally deleted a file that they shouldn’t have. One of the easiest things you can do to earn your badge in geekiness is helping a person recover files from a computer that just won’t boot. Do you want to be your local neighborhood geek? Of course you do! That’s why you’re here.

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