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Thanks Paul T,

I downloaded it and was able to create the Boot USB.

As Ben noted, it’s the newer version. Seems to work fine.

Russel

Thanks for this, it’s going to bee very helpfull.

A couple of questions.

I download the ISO from the Older Geeks link in your article (being an older geek, myself) but when I try to add it to Rufus, to burn it as you suggest, Rufus says the file is truncated, the size of the ISO is incorrect and the MD5 and SHA checksums are wrong. You can calculate the checksums of the file in Rufus and they, indeed don’t match.

These are the ones on the Older Geek page:
ISO MD5 BEC7304FE2EB11DE495B9EA7B73C38AA
ISO SHA1 EC7D4EC02A8772A4ECAEE59A9095D65B043AA77D
ISO SHA-256 8281107683E81BE362AFD213026D05B2219BC6A7CA9AF4D2856663F3FFC17BFD

These are the ones calculated by Rufus:
MD5 697759228b432217e00635bce4afa2cb
SHA1 424912e5d1c59d52020e2f0f57bae82de8e2af76
SHA256 275976a6d9cdf8f487fd8ebf6f3e92655fac41c3b9e0e8f71df917c8721ffc35

I downloaded the ISO twice but got the same error. I also tried getting it from https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ but there is no download available there, at least no button to download.

I get no error when downloading the ISO.

Rufus fails when writing the ISO to the USB drive. In the Rufus log, it says it’s because the file is truncated. I’ve attached a screenshot.

Below is the contents of the Rufus.Log:

Rufus x64 v4.4.2103 (Portable)
Windows version: Windows 11 Home x64 (Build 22631.3007)
Syslinux versions: 4.07/2013-07-25, 6.04/pre1
Grub versions: 0.4.6a, 2.06
System locale ID: 0x0409 (en-US)
Will use default UI locale 0x0409
SetLGP: Successfully set NoDriveTypeAutorun policy to 0x0000009E
Localization set to ‘en-US’
Found 517 officially revoked UEFI bootloaders from embedded list
Found 2351 additional revoked UEFI bootloaders from this system’s SKUSiPolicy.p7b
Found UAS (USB 3.0) device ‘Fantom External HDD UAS Device’ (152D:0562)
Device eliminated because it was detected as a Hard Drive (score 63 > 0)
If this device is not a Hard Drive, please e-mail the author of this application
NOTE: You can enable the listing of Hard Drives under ‘advanced drive properties’
Found USB 3.0 device ‘Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device’ (0951:1666)
1 device found
Could not get Disk Extents: [0x00000001] Incorrect function.
Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 16 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes
Cylinders: 1881, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63
Partition type: GPT, NB Partitions: 2
Disk GUID: {7D1C9593-C331-4098-B9FA-1614C2B5A2E1}
Max parts: 128, Start Offset: 17408, Usable = 15472012800 bytes
Partition 1:
Type: Microsoft Basic Data Partition
Name: ‘Main Data Partition’
Detected File System: NTFS
ID: {4848FE69-D338-4EC8-97FE-26C0AA1E3241}
Size: 14.4 GB (15469912064 bytes)
Start Sector: 2048, Attributes: 0x0000000000000000
Partition 2 (UEFI:NTFS):
Type: Microsoft Basic Data Partition
Name: ‘UEFI:NTFS’
Detected File System: FAT12
ID: {F27BD3F3-D21C-4A91-A57E-03924AF50864}
Size: 1 MB (1048576 bytes)
Start Sector: 30216720, Attributes: 0x9000000000000000
Scanning image…
ISO analysis:
Image is a UDF image
Disk image analysis:
Image does not have a Boot Marker
ISO label: ‘HBCD_PE_x64’
Size: 2.9 GB (Projected)
ERROR: Detected that file on disk has been truncated by 36.1 MB!
Uses: EFI
Uses: Bootmgr (BIOS and UEFI)
Using image: HBCD_PE_x64.iso (2.9 GB)

Computing hash for ‘C:\BIN\Make a Windows PE\Hiren’s BootCD PE x64 v1.0.2\HBCD_PE_x64.iso’…
MD5: 697759228b432217e00635bce4afa2cb
SHA1: 424912e5d1c59d52020e2f0f57bae82de8e2af76
SHA256: 275976a6d9cdf8f487fd8ebf6f3e92655fac41c3b9e0e8f71df917c8721ffc35