Question Issues booting Hiren's Boot CD to Laptop

[Spec_tech]

Hi everyone. I'm not sure exactly what forum section to put this in, but it basically involves trying to boot some bootable ISO's to a laptop and it not working properly.

So i have a Dell Precision M3800 that i'm trying to get to boot Hiren's Boot CD with a multiboot installer such as YUMI or Ventoy.
I already confirmed the Hiren's ISO is ok by booting it to a Virtualbox VM and it boots fine.
The laptop has an MBR partitioning setup, and i've already turned off secure boot, TPM, and set booting to Legacy instead of UEFI.

Now I know that YUMI basically uses Ventoy now, so it's the same thing. But i've tried using both YUMI and Ventoy to try to boot to Hiren's, but it won't boot past the boot mode selection.
I can boot to the USB's, and i can go through the selection menu to pick the Hiren's ISO, but when it gets to the boot mode selection and pick "Boot to normal mode" it just flashes black real quick and then freezes on the boot selection screen.

I'm trying to figure out if this is because Ventoy/YUMI format the flash drives with exFAT and UEFI and that's conflicting with the laptops MBR partitioning or something.
Can anyone confirm if this is the problem or if it's something else, and how to resolve it?

 

[COLGeek]

Cross posted here:

Question - Issues booting Hiren's Boot CD to Laptop

Hi everyone. I'm not sure exactly what forum section to put this in, but it basically involves trying to boot some bootable ISO's to a laptop and it not working properly. So i have a Dell Precision M3800 that i'm trying to get to boot Hiren's Boot CD with a multiboot installer such as YUMI or...

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[COLGeek]

This should not be a MBR issue. Can you successfully boot any other media, i.e. Windows install USB, Live Linux distro, etc?

 

[Spec_tech]

This should not be a MBR issue. Can you successfully boot any other media, i.e. Windows install USB, Live Linux distro, etc?

Yeah, Linux distros and Windows installs work with Rufus. But i've tried the Hiren's Boot CD ISO with Rufus and it gives a Windows Boot Manager error with error code 0xc0000017, "there isn't enough memory available to create a ramdisk service". I've got 16 GB on the stupid thing, and it all shows in the BIOS.

Otherwise, Windows install ISOs, Linux distros, HBCD, nothing seems to boot properly with YUMI/Ventoy.
I haven't tried booting it to another laptop or desktop yet, but i'm betting it'll work on everything else.

 

[COLGeek]

Yeah, Linux distros and Windows installs work with Rufus. But i've tried the Hiren's Boot CD ISO with Rufus and it gives a Windows Boot Manager error with error code 0xc0000017, "there isn't enough memory available to create a ramdisk service". I've got 16 GB on the stupid thing, and it all shows in the BIOS.

Otherwise, Windows install ISOs, Linux distros, HBCD, nothing seems to boot properly with YUMI/Ventoy.
I haven't tried booting it to another laptop or desktop yet, but i'm betting it'll work on everything else.

You followed these instructions?

USB Booting | Hiren's BootCD PE

 

[Spec_tech]

You followed these instructions?

USB Booting | Hiren's BootCD PE

I did not, but i found the fix while tinkering.

To get YUMI/Ventoy to boot to anything, you have to boot the flash drive from under the UEFI options in the Boot selection menu/F10 for Dell laptops. But it finally works. I just never thought to use that because everything i thought was set for MBR/Legacy.

 

[COLGeek]

You went where I was about to suggest. Well done.

 

[lava2]

first download the Hiren’s BootDVD 15.2 [Restored Edition] 2.8GB, second and its the best way (i tried many ways before) download rmprepusb from their original website its all free, then follow instructions content no.3 Alternative Windows Method (RMPrepUSB) MBR is compatible with windows xp but you can't install windows 10 or even 8.1, if you have a newer computer with UEFI firmware, GPT is recommended for better compatibility and support for modern features, and newer windows, i tried it before to have dual boot windows xp 64 bit and win 8.1 but i failed, i use hiren boot since version 6.2