When I try the USB option I will get the Windows logo, but it won't go any further. After the USB Boot is successful, Hiren's BOOTCD's interface will be as follows: GUI of Norton Ghost on Hiren's BootCD. On most PCs this will be the F11 key at startup, and then select the USB boot volume. To access the Boot Menu on your computer, see the following instructions: Shortcut key to access BOOT MENU. To boot to the Hiren’s BootCD PE drive you’ll need to change your boot options. Another reason why USB not working is that sometimes people connected the USB drive to the PC but forgot to set up the USB as a boot device. Restart the computer and choose to boot with USB. Set USB as Boot Drive - Setting Boot Priority to USB Drive. When I try the UEFI that's when it get's stuck on the Asrock logo. Step 5: Plug Hiren's BOOTCD's USB into the computer.
When I tried again on my current system I noticed there are 2 options to boot from the thumbdrive, UEFI & USB. Should I get windows 11 or decline the upgrade, and, if I decline it, will I get windows 11 update suggestions again (I read some of the softwares may not run on windows 11 and I have some important softwares required for my work like ArcGIS 10.8, SNAP, etc. I have an older laptop running a BIOS system, and I was actually able to get the Hiren's PE to load up through USB on it, so the image and thumbdrive work. I would still like to get Hiren to work, I'm finding more and more it would be useful for me.
I contacted Hiren's website as well to see if I can get any input from them.
Sorry it's taken a while to get back, I got tied up with a bunch of stuff. How to Make Hirens BootCD on USB Flash Drive Download the program to make flash drive for bootable, namely usbformat and grub4dos.