Posts made by russed

[quote=“pjcard, post: 8665, member: 2528”]This discussion is about booting hirens over the network, russed, I think you’re talking about something else.[/quote]
Maybe you’re right, but as I stated at the start of my post, I had something to say about booting Hiren’s boot CD from it’s ISO image file and running its menus and programs.
I only had the hope that this can be useful for someone.

Hi.
I didn’t know what fog was. It seems interesting.
But I think that I have something to say about booting Hiren’s Boot CD from its iso.
I’ve tried several versions of Hiren’s Boot CD, and in all of them, even the last one, Hiren’s menu doesn’t start when booting from the iso file.
I managed to find a solution.
First, I use Grub as boot manager in order to select which iso to boot.
This is the Hiren’s entry in menu.lst:

title Hiren’s.BootCD 15
find --set-root /Hiren’s.BootCD.15.1.iso
map /Hiren’s.BootCD.15.1.iso (hd32)
map --hook

Booting Hiren’s in this way, and selecting Mini Windows XP, doesn’t load Hiren’s menu.
This is how I solved this problem:
1- Open a Windows Explorer window and navigate to Control Panel in the left panel.
2- In the Explorer’s right panel, double click on ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver.
3- Click the bottom left button, “Mount new”, navigate to select Hiren’s iso, and mount it.
4- Open a DOS Command Prompt window (it opens by default at Hiren’s system32 directory, X:\I386\System32, so there is no need to change dir), type in “startup” (without quotes) and hit [Enter], in order to run startup.cmd.

That’s all.
If it works, spread it wide.