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1. Firdaus May 11th, 2009 at 3:03 pm 1

   Does this works on Windows 7 32Bit. I’ve forgotten my password once on Windows 7. Thx in advance.

2. mazani May 11th, 2009 at 3:35 pm 2

   4 more info. mybe i thing u can use this tool ‘Hp Usb Disk Storage Format Tool ‘also

3. Raymond May 11th, 2009 at 4:02 pm 3

   Firdaus, Kon-Boot works on Windows 7.

   Mazani, I don’t think you can use HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to burn an ISO to a USB. You can only create a DOS startup disk on USB with it.

4. mazani May 11th, 2009 at 4:05 pm 4

   thank ray 4 your info

5. milad May 11th, 2009 at 4:09 pm 5

   gr8 ray.

6. Kislay Kishore May 11th, 2009 at 5:20 pm 6

   Its brilliant Raymond

7. sul2005tan May 11th, 2009 at 5:33 pm 7

   thanks in advance.

8. pankaj May 11th, 2009 at 5:43 pm 8

   Mr Raymond i have read ur Ask Raymond:Which is the best antivirus? column tomorrow..
   But i totally disagree with u..
   try Quickheal it is the best antivirus i have ever used.
   I am sure that u will love it too..

9. pankaj May 11th, 2009 at 5:46 pm 9

   oops sorry a grammatical mistake in my previous comment.

10. Franck May 11th, 2009 at 5:51 pm 10

    Thanks, but it doesn’t work on my computer.

    I see the UnetBootin menu, and konboot launches and I see the kryptoslogic splashscreen.

    If I remove the USB key now, then press enter, at the end of the process konBoot fails to launch windows, as it is unable to read original MBR.

    If I keep the USB stick at its place, at the end of the process, instead of launching windows, I see the UnetBootin menu again…

    So ?

11. Rixiu May 11th, 2009 at 5:53 pm 11

    The second URL
    2. Download Kon-Boot floppy image and extract the zip file to get FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img file

    Does not work… Any suggestions ?

12. Abdul Haseeb May 11th, 2009 at 6:04 pm 12

    That is gr8 Raymond.. But can we burn in this way windows XP iso image to USB for installation through USB!!

13. ha14 May 11th, 2009 at 6:42 pm 13

    I saw some debate regarding Kon-Boot to USB, many were wondering how. Thanks for lighting the path to it.

14. Madhu May 11th, 2009 at 6:46 pm 14

    Raymond. I hav done the same procedure u mentioned above. But Kon-Boot again and again rebooting and giving the UNetbootin screen only.

15. 123vso May 11th, 2009 at 6:58 pm 15

    Ray,

    whenever i use kon boot cd,after pressing the Enter key i get a messege saying

    “Windows NT has not found enough extended memory. 7MB of extended memory is
    reuiqred to run Windows NT. YOu may need to upgrade your computer or run a
    configuration program provided by the manufacturer.

    Memory Map:……..”

    How can i solve this Ray???? PLEASE HELP

    I checked my memory[512mb]it’s fine and the computer is working well.As far as i know there is no booting problems.It takes even my bootable xp cd,ubuntu cd,PCLogin now cd,OphCrack cds very well.Whenever i use those mentioned cds they work very well…..

    PLEASE SOLVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFULL!!!!!!!!!!!

16. Raymond May 11th, 2009 at 7:02 pm 16

    @pankaj: If you like QuickHeal and it works perfectly for you, then continue using it.

    @Franck: Did you download the CD-ISO or Floppy Image?

    @Rixiu: You should learn how to extract a ZIP file first

    @Madhu: Download the Floppy Image, not the CD-ISO.

17. sb_92 May 11th, 2009 at 7:31 pm 17

    i dont seem to understand why ppl go for stuff like quickheal when theres kaspersky around…either that person is a newbe at computers or he/she does not have sound knowledge of viruses and have never been attacked by a good one like the rest of us

    yay ray thx finally i can use kon-boot to usb…using a CD for such a small file is a complete waste and for a floppy..no one knows whether its gonna work the next second

18. dino May 11th, 2009 at 7:44 pm 18

    raymond..i can use the download link in step.1~

    cant reach the network it says..

19. duckne55 May 11th, 2009 at 7:58 pm 19

    Its probably because the ISO file has the IMG file inside…

20. Jon May 11th, 2009 at 7:59 pm 20

    Ray, have you tested if it works? It doesn’t work for me. Kon-Boot kept on looping and never went on to the Windows OS boot screen.

    Am I missing some steps?!

21. Raymond May 11th, 2009 at 8:23 pm 21

    @Jon: Definitely it works on my side or else I won’t post it.

    Make sure you use the Floppy Image, NOT the CD-ISO!

22. Nicole May 11th, 2009 at 8:24 pm 22

    raymond, i tried all of these:
    i downloaded it andextracted and then burned it to my USB. But after booting kon-boot, the Unet Menu comes again and again.

23. 123vso May 11th, 2009 at 8:41 pm 23

    hey ray.Did you figure out my problem???????????

24. Kislay Kishore May 11th, 2009 at 9:02 pm 24

    Thank u for the UNetbootin tool but its neither working on my desktop(old one) nor on the laptop(newer). I get to see the UNetbootin screen again and again.

25. vua May 11th, 2009 at 9:22 pm 25

    i believe this should be possible some day! awesome
    thanks Raymond

26. mcgr5 May 11th, 2009 at 9:33 pm 26

    Thanks Ray for another great post!

27. Junn May 11th, 2009 at 10:22 pm 27

    Wow, I was actually expecting you to pursue this subject (Kon-Boot to USB, as others have been asking for), Raymond. Thank you!

28. Sulav May 11th, 2009 at 11:16 pm 28

    working here with out any glitch.

29. webcadre May 11th, 2009 at 11:33 pm 29

    thanks ray! awesome post!

30. Barti May 11th, 2009 at 11:43 pm 30

    I have the same problem as Kislay Kishore I boot with my USB on 2 computers but it do the same as Kislay Kishore !
    I have downloaded the good .img file and it don’t work and I don’t know why help me please Raymond !!

    Thanks !

31. Barti May 12th, 2009 at 12:22 am 31

    I retryed to boot with my USB but I’m blocked here :
    >>KON-BOOT ver. 1.0 – ready! h4×0Rin uH?
    >>Checking SMAP BIOS entries…
    >>Dummy BIOS detected, trying to fix SMAP entries.
    >>Booting up ! -EOT

    And nothing happens !!!

    I don’t know why but it don’t work T_T

    Please help me

    Thanks !

32. Ali May 12th, 2009 at 12:51 am 32

    just wondering, does it change the current user name or pass?

    for example, if ma bro uses a win xp. will he notice that i enterd? (viewed user name changed for instance?, instead of say “Ahmedoz”, he finds “administrator”, or “kon boot” etc)

    cant test atm in ma pc, bios dosnt support USB (WAY too lazy to buy a CD either )

33. Smalldog May 12th, 2009 at 12:54 am 33

    The same problem with me!

34. ahmed May 12th, 2009 at 1:23 am 34

    Help raymond….im getting the same result as Barti

    it comes to the Unet menu for about 3 times, then the screen goes blank and ive to restart my comp again…..maybe you can suggest some other way to get my pass back!!

    thanks ray for the tip anyway.

35. Franck May 12th, 2009 at 1:23 am 35

    Hi Raymond !
    I definitely used the floppy image. I followed step by step your instructions.
    I see we are many to encounter this same UNetBootin menu loop problem…
    Hope you’ll help !

    Thanks in advance

36. cbritt84 May 12th, 2009 at 1:39 am 36

    I get the same results as Barti. I used only the floppy image. Gotta be doing something wrong.

37. Mohamed May 12th, 2009 at 2:28 am 37

    it asks me to select Distribution. which 1 i shuld select?

38. Fran May 12th, 2009 at 2:38 am 38

    Making all steps right, don´t working.

    I maked too many tries and not work.

    I yet configured the motherboard in several modes, but none.

    Someone working? I see anyone… in all comments…

    Maybe… just works in a few motherboards…

39. Rahul Isola May 12th, 2009 at 3:21 am 39

    Same prob as others…looping menu…m sure i used d FD image…was really lookin 4wrd 2 use it…

40. SMArt May 12th, 2009 at 3:41 am 40

    konboot disk is something like a rootkit, that loads to memory before OS and blocks OS’s mechanism of verification. if you open floppy image with archiver or write it on floppy, there are no files. Author wrote konboot in TASM, so the diskette contains raw code for processor without anything else. ISO image is empty too, except diskette image added as boot, so no need to try to write the ISO image of konboot to flash-drive.

    The UNetbootin utility just stupidly copies necesary files then makes the flash-drive bootable with syslinux and adds to syslinux.cfg strings to load disk image with syslinux boot manager. It handles Linux CD-images only and not all of them may work after installation tu USB drive. UNetbootin is just stupid grafic interface and contains nothing useful.

    As I tried to add konboot to my multiboot flashdrive, I met some difficults. When USB-Flash disk is chosen as bootable, it is mapped as hd0 – the first hard drive of computer. So after konboot loading, it chains the boot to the first bootable drive in system. So the flash-drive boots again and again. I tested it at home on my Intel DP43TF, and tomorrow I will test it at work on MSI, ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards. Mapping of disk by default depends to BIOS of motherboard as far as I know. If I find the way to run konboot from USB-disk, I will write about it here in comments.

    Anyway, thank you, Raymond, for your blog.
    Sorry for bad English, I’m from Russia
    Good luck to all

41. hanan May 12th, 2009 at 4:05 am 41

    2. Download Kon-Boot floppy image
    the link dosen’t work
    ????

    can u re post it ??

    thanx Ray

42. TechGuyBoy May 12th, 2009 at 5:27 am 42

    Thanks Raymond, very nice tip.

43. Raikurion May 12th, 2009 at 6:27 am 43

    Umm Raymond I have the same problem as the others were posting. I download Unetbooting & the floppy img file. I extracted, install using the unetboot and I can’t seem to proceed on the log in menu it keeps going back to the Unetbooting page then Kon-boot, the log in menu doesn’t show.

    Please HELP!!

44. sam May 12th, 2009 at 6:40 am 44

    hey raymond mah getting this message and nothing happens…..me using vista home basic laptop

    >>KON-BOOT ver. 1.0 – ready! h4×0Rin uH?
    >>Checking SMAP BIOS entries…
    >>Dummy BIOS detected, trying to fix SMAP entries.
    >>Booting up ! -EOT

    plz tell me wat to do now?????

45. anjali May 12th, 2009 at 6:43 am 45

    same problem like sam and bharti here

    >>KON-BOOT ver. 1.0 – ready! h4×0Rin uH?
    >>Checking SMAP BIOS entries…
    >>Dummy BIOS detected, trying to fix SMAP entries.
    >>Booting up ! -EOT

    not going any way………

46. sahil May 12th, 2009 at 6:46 am 46

    same plm described above by bharti, sam , and anjali…….

    same plm here tooo…….

    KON-BOOT ver. 1.0 – ready! h4×0Rin uH?
    Checking SMAP BIOS entries…
    Dummy BIOS detected, trying to fix SMAP entries.
    Booting up ! -EOT

47. Tony May 12th, 2009 at 7:36 am 47

    If i mount the floppy image to my usb drive, it loops once the kernal has been loaded.

    I have also tried changing the startup order of the computer so that it boots from HDD 1st before usb, then manually select to boot from USB from startup.

    AKA – it does not work for me on two seperate computers, but i do see it trying to work.

    Maybe there is a way in editing the syslinux.cfg to boot from HDD1 so that we can manually boot it afterwards.

    Tony

48. Alan May 12th, 2009 at 10:27 am 48

    Thanks Ray for hearing our prayers

49. Ali May 12th, 2009 at 10:37 am 49

    got same looping problem. i think it got somthing to do with me having more than one harddisk connected, and each harddisk has more than one windows installed..
    i dont think kon boot support dual booting yet

50. faizulhu May 12th, 2009 at 12:07 pm 50

    Had for waiting for this article. Thanks Raymond. You’re the best

51. ibrahim May 12th, 2009 at 3:36 pm 51

    This is not working for me……
    I had follow all the steps but when I boot from removable disc it doesnt show any UNetBootin screen…

52. manish May 12th, 2009 at 4:50 pm 52

    same problem like sam and bharti here

    >>KON-BOOT ver. 1.0 – ready! h4×0Rin uH?
    >>Checking SMAP BIOS entries…
    >>Dummy BIOS detected, trying to fix SMAP entries.
    >>Booting up ! -EOT

    not going any way………

53. Barti May 12th, 2009 at 11:46 pm 53

    SMArt, what you said is very interesting please help me if you find a way to make a Kon-Boot USB WORKING !
    I let you my msn : ratlasic@hotmail.fr
    And I hope you will succeed !!!

    If Raymond can help us it can be good ^^

    Sorry for bad english I’m French ^^

    PS : I tryed USB Kon-Boot on 3 PC : One Vista, one XP and one other XP !

    Thanks !

54. Barti May 13th, 2009 at 12:18 am 54

    I send a mail to Piotr Bania (the one who make Kon-Boot) about this problem who many persons have and I have too and I will say you if he reply !

    Thanks !

55. metric May 13th, 2009 at 1:03 am 55

    Same for me I’m sure that I have downloaded the floppy img.

    I see the UnetBootin menu, and konboot launches and I see the kryptoslogic splashscreen.

    If I remove the USB key now, then press enter, at the end of the process konBoot fails to launch windows, as it is unable to read original MBR.

    If I keep the USB stick at its place, at the end of the process, instead of launching windows, I see the UnetBootin menu again…

    Raymond, Please assist

56. SMArt May 13th, 2009 at 4:18 am 56

    Thank you, Barti. Write here as Piotr Bania answer.

57. Asfour May 13th, 2009 at 3:13 pm 57

    I Used Grub4dos to do that and it worked so fine.{Tested it many times on many computers}
    The How to is as follows:

    1- Install Grub4dos or use Grub installer {search for it on the internet} and make your USB flash disk a bootable

    2- copy konboot.img {floppy image version}to your USB flash {on the root of it }

    3- download memdisk.bin and copy it to the same place as konboot.img {search for it on Internet too}

    4- add an entry in the file menu.lst {on USB flash root} … like this :

    title Kon-Boot
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel (hd0,0)/memdisk.bin
    initrd=/konboot.img

    that’s all you need.Then you will have kon-bbot installed on your USB flash disk and you can add different tools too.

    search for Grub4dos options and capabilities

    That’s ALL.
    ASFOUR

58. Barti May 13th, 2009 at 4:30 pm 58

    He had n’t reply…
    I wait his reply and I try to make a USB Kon-Boot with other technics ^^

    Thanks !

59. Barti May 13th, 2009 at 9:09 pm 59

    Asfour I can’t find Grub4dos and memdisk.bin !!
    Can you give me this files please ?

    Thanks !

60. James Doc May 13th, 2009 at 9:52 pm 60

    On trying to download this. NOD 32 jumped in and said the following-

    http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/data/FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.zip probably unknown TSR.BOOT virus connection terminated – quarantined Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe.
    http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/data/FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.zip » ZIP » FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img probably unknown TSR.BOOT virus
    ———————————————————————————
    CONTACTED RAY AND AWAITING RESPONSE WILL GET BACK ON THIS SO DO NOT WORRY AS OF YET!!!!!

61. James Doc May 14th, 2009 at 2:11 am 61

    RESPONSE TO MY LAST POST

    Failed to read the full thing. IT’S SAFE TO DOWNLOAD. NOD IS AT FAULT SO NOT TO WORRY

    RAY GOT BACK TO ME VERY FAST AND EASED MY MIND

    THANKS MATE!

62. Rahul Isola May 15th, 2009 at 7:49 pm 62

    @Asfour: m facing d same prob wid grub4boot as UNetbootin…it loops n goes back 2 d grub menu…

    Can you please give a detailed step-by-step instructions on how you managed to do it???

63. Barti May 15th, 2009 at 11:36 pm 63

    @Asfour : I have the same problem than Rahul Isola can you make a tuto for us ?

    Thanks !

64. sam May 16th, 2009 at 2:51 am 64

    did any one got the solution ….dat how to overcome with this plm????

    basic laptop

    >>KON-BOOT ver. 1.0 – ready! h4×0Rin uH?
    >>Checking SMAP BIOS entries…
    >>Dummy BIOS detected, trying to fix SMAP entries.
    >>Booting up ! -EOT

    plz reply………raymond ……..where are you……..

    any1 out here……

65. crc May 17th, 2009 at 1:56 am 65

    thnx buddy

66. Asfour May 17th, 2009 at 2:41 pm 66

    Rahul Isola & Barti:
    it does loop back again to the Grub menu but it did the work really.
    Just boot to Hard Disk from the Grub menu and you will see it is just WORKED.
    Make an entry in Grub menu in the menu.lst file to boot from Hard Disk or use the following one:

    title Boot from hard disk
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    map –hook
    chainloader (hd0)+1
    boot

    JUST TRY IT…!!!

67. Mike May 18th, 2009 at 4:20 am 67

    Hey Asfour… thanks for pointing to the Grub4 – it’s interesting project.

    Is there any tutorial that you would recommend me so I can learn the commands? help command when I boot using Grub doesn’t help me much.

    I’m especially interested in knowing how to mount ISOs… managed to mount WinXPInstall.iso with:

    title WindowsXP
    map –mem (fd0)/WinXP.iso (hd32)
    map –hook
    chainloader (hd32)

    … but konboot.iso won’t work with this commands. I mean it seems that image is mounted… after chainloader command it gives me two lines of text… and just stands there. When I type in boot to force booting – it says -> Error 8 : Kernel must be loaded before booting

    Tnx

68. Tom May 18th, 2009 at 11:51 pm 68

    There are lots of resources out there for grub4dos, check out bootland or the 911cd forums. You can’t boot directly from a windows install cd – once the kernel loads at install then you lose all mappings to “virutal cds” that you may have made. You can install winxp from usb (see msfn forums) but not in the way you describe…

69. Frax May 21st, 2009 at 11:02 am 69

    Hi everyone , I manged to get this all done (thanks to Asfour for telling us about Grub4dos)

    Asfour’s way wont work, So here how to do it.

    First get Grub4dos from here: http://uploadbud.com/files/5B82M4YL/Grub4dos.rar
    Now start grubinst_gui.exe and select your your flash (Double Check it – and i let you figure things out yourself)
    from Grub4dos copy/paste grldr and grub to your usb flash.

    Obtain FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img (From here http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/data/FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.zip ) and put .img file into your flash memory

    Make a file called menu.lst (hint: make sure its NOT ending with .txt – other wise I say stop and this directions not for you) containing the following:

    title Koon-Boot
    map (hd0,0)/FD0-konboot-v1.1-2in1.img (fd0)
    map –hook
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    map –hook
    chainloader (fd0)+1
    rootnoverify (fd0)

    That’s all it will pass and everything would be fine.

    For others who wants to know more. I am using syslinux and grub4dos with this in syslinux.cfg

    label Gurb4dos
    kernel /grub.exe

    and the same steps goes from here. If someone found a way to do it all with syslinux feel free to speak and yeah you could use ubnkern and ubninit instead of .img , if you know whats i am talking about

70. Deepz May 28th, 2009 at 12:46 pm 70

    One question, does it support NTFS harddisk. I had followed the Raymonds way, formated flashdrive in fat32. Looks like PC boots from flash drive (but no obvious GUI) and nothing happens. Is it a problem because my harddisk is in NTFS system?

    Will try and see Frax method..

71. Deepz May 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm 71

    OK, I’m not able to figure out. I can’t boot from USB

72. wantp May 30th, 2009 at 5:54 pm 72

    Raymond, do this method will erase all files in our flashdrive?

73. zenon July 23rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm 73

    after installing these,,, the bios dont show the option to boot frm removal drive…:S.(removal drive was the floppy)…iam supposed to select the flopy rite ?. as the first booting device?.

74. Keo August 17th, 2009 at 8:50 pm 74

    I’ll try it right now for a friend who has been victim of a bad joke. However, if “ABC Formation, 2001″ tells you about something, don’t hesitate and e-mail me!
    Thanks for all, gud job.

75. pama August 20th, 2009 at 7:25 pm 75

    Hey

    I see the UNetbootin screen then the Krypto Logic screen but after that nothing happens. If i push any button then blank screen comes. If i don’t push any button then i see the unetbootin screen forever.
    I downloaded the flopy version, not the cd one.
    PLease help me to solve my problem.

    Thanks
    pama

76. julien September 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm 76

    I try what you say. it works fine but on my XP professional I can not manage to access the bios to ask to boot on the usb (I have a tablet PC). and when I put the USB at the boot time I have an error asking me to remove the disk.
    what could I do?
    I feel the access to the bios is protected by admin right

77. Tom October 7th, 2009 at 4:04 pm 77

    Hi, I tried it on 5 different PC/Laptop and it works to boot from the USB, but I had on each PC a different problem. Once I only got a black screen, nothing else, on the next I´ve seen the main screen to select the OS but after that nothing happened anymore, I also got the error message “dummy bios detected” and on the last two PCs it didnt boot at all. All this errors seems to depend on the installation of the OS and its settings. After USB I tried it with the ISO CD and had the exact the same problems. It didnt get it to bypass the logon, is there anything else I have to do?

78. Roaf October 21st, 2009 at 4:40 pm 78

    Hi, Thanks man
    I tried it on vista it works and i tried it on xp it doesnt work it says no kernel image or something after i boot from usb

79. prejval November 4th, 2009 at 8:32 pm 79

    i am having some prob wt it …. everything is workin fine untill the konboot screen comes ….. aftr that nothing happens it just gets struck at that screen….help me