Hiren's Boot CD HBCD menu missing when booting on Vaio Z3
I wanted to back up my Z3 using Hiren's Boot CD . I have done this before, and it worked well. (I recommend Image For Windows, available on Hiren's, but you should buy a licence. IFW seems to be one of the only programs out there that can actually do a bare metal restore.) Oddly enough, when I booted the Z from the USB stick, I did not see Image for Windows. In fact, I did not see any programs at all. Mini Windows XP ran fine, but all the programs were missing! Scrounging around the File Manager turned up nada. It looked like the USB stick was not there, even though the machine had booted from it just fine. The conflict in my case was an SD card that I had added to the system. It seems Mini XP got confused after boot and replaced the USB stick drive with the SD card. XP was not capable of reading the SD card owing to the large capacity, and essentially got stuck, unable to locate or load any of the Hiren's apps. Removing the SD card (a...