Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 - Can't find XP.BIN for Mini XP

Saberus

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I'm at a loss here.

I downloaded the ISO for Hiren's 15.2 and followed the instructions from Hirens.org to make a USB drive boot disk.

I try to run it, and it does react as a bootable device, but when I try to boot to the MiniXP environment it tells me it can't find XP.BIN. I look on the drive, and it's right there in the path specified. The same issue occurs if I try to boot to the DOS environment or to Linux. It claims it can't find files that are right there in the directory it's looking for them.

Anyone else have this issue? I've scoured tech sites and haven't found any details on a fix.

I tried redownloading the ISO in case I had a bad copy, and deactivated my on-access virus scans since it was throwing false positives.
 

Saberus

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I figured it out. I wasn't copying the root of the image to the USB drive. After copying the root image and placing grldr in the root, the USB drive works just fine.

I'm a derp. I'm posting this here in case anyone else runs into the same issue in the future.