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What's new in this version:

FlashBoot 3.2m
- Starting from this version, FlashBoot Pro can patch Windows 7 UEFI loader for compatibility with modern computers which have no VGA hardware. This is an optional feature, disabled by default. It is located on the driver integration page, under "OS installer -> USB" main menu item. This feature is available only for Windows 7 x64 in UEFI mode. It should be applied if Windows Setup halts when displaying OS logo


FlashBoot 3.2k
- Improved compatibility of FlashBoot clones with NTFS reparse points under Windows 10, version 1709 and later versions


FlashBoot 3.2j
- Performance improvements (clones of all types work faster since this version)
- OneDrive files which are not stored locally no longer cause FlashBoot to fail (all OneDrive files and folders are skipped during cloning)


FlashBoot 3.2i
- Change log not available for this version


FlashBoot 3.2h
- Change log not available for this version


FlashBoot 3.2g

The following errors were fixed (they occured in a loop during registry validation in cloning scenarios):

Could not replay logs for registry hive ...: L4 validation failed:
- KS-cell #0x... has abnormally large length of security descriptor

Validation warning for ... registry hive: L4 validation WARNING:
- Index-of-subkeys cell #0x... has type IR, but there are not enough subkeys to be contained in IR


FlashBoot 3.2f

- Registry hive validation rules (which are used to enforce consistency during Windows 8/8.1/10 cloning) were relaxed to allow zero-sized registry hives. This should prevent erroneus loop during snapshot validation in cloning scenarios

Prepackaged Windows 7 driver for Intel USB 3.0 Host Controller was updated, added support for the following new devices:
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15B5
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15B6
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15C1
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15D4
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15DB
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_A22F
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_A2AF


FlashBoot 3.2d
- Starting from this version, FlashBoot Pro supports creation of bootable clones without compression


FlashBoot 3.2c
Fixed the following error for non-UEFI scenarios:
- no valid version info in WindowsBootPCATbootmbr (it was a typo: bootmbr -> bootmgr).


FlashBoot 3.2b
- Change log not available for this version


FlashBoot 3.2
- Starting from this version, FlashBoot Pro supports creation of installable clones. They can be used to transfer Windows with all installed apps and settings between PCs, to move OS from HDD to SSD, to move OS to/from RAID array, to change OS boot method between UEFI/non-UEFI, to gain unpartitioned disk space for dual-boot configurations, or just as self-extracting backup
- Also, severe data corruption bug (in INFCACHE.1) was fixed in driver integration subsystem. This applies to Windows 7 and Windows Vista only


FlashBoot 3.1k
- Added prepackaged drivers for Intel USB Host Controller with device IDs 1E26 and 1E2D (Panther Point)


FlashBoot 3.1j
- Change log not available for this version


FlashBoot 3.1i
- Fixed severe data corruption bug in WIM recompression subsystem: unrelated files with matching DIRENTRY.liHardLink were erroneously coalesced into single file. This bug could occur with WIM images originally captured on one NTFS volume, then updated from another NTFS volume. It sometimes manifested as invalid contents of WindowsSystem32oobeWinLGDep.dll file inside sourcesinstall.wim of Windows 7 x64 setup image after driver integration


FlashBoot 3.1h
- Samsung NVMe controller driver was updated from version 2.2.0.1703 to 3.0.0.1802, and now it supports new device PCIVEN_144D&DEV_A808


FlashBoot 3.1g
- Fixed "too many USB logical disks after soft replug" problem which occured for full-featured Windows 8/8.1/10 installation and cloning scenarios in UEFI mode, if target USB storage device was USB HDD, and if host OS was Windows 10 1804


FlashBoot 3.1f
- Added handling of specific condition when pre-existing EFI System Partition or Microsoft Reserved Partition could prevent reformatting of fixed USB mass storage device with GPT partition layout. This applies both to FlashBoot itself and self-extracting EXE files generated by FlashBoot


FlashBoot 3.1e
The following prepackaged drivers were added:
- Intel(R) USB 3.0 Host Controller Adaptation Driver for Windows 8/8.1
- ASMedia USB 3.1 Extensible Host Controller Driver for Windows 7 and above
- Etron USB 3.0 Extensible Host Controller Driver for Windows 7 and above
- Fresco Logic xHCI (USB3) Device Driver for Windows 7 and above
- Texas Instruments USB 3.0 Host Controller Driver for Windows Vista and above
- Intel(R) 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller Driver for Windows 7 and above
- Intel(R) 9 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller Driver for Windows 7 and above
- Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI/RAID Controller Driver for Windows 7
- Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller Driver for Windows 7
- Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller Driver for Windows 7
- Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller Driver for Windows 7


FlashBoot 3.1d
- All builtin links to prime-expert.com and subdomains were changed from http to https


FlashBoot 3.1c
- For Windows Setup Media conversion scenarios (from ISO to USB), if size of install.wim/install.esd is larger than or equal to 4 Gb, and target filesystem is not NTFS, then this file is recompressed in solid mode. This is strictly necessary for post-November 2017 builds of Windows 10, and this is on par with MS Media Creation Tool


FlashBoot 3.1b
- Starting from this version, FlashBoot driver integration feature supports Windows Setup images with mixed bitness (32-bit/64-bit)


FlashBoot 3.1a

- Starting from this version, Windows Recovery is installed to the target USB storage device along with mainline Windows in all ToGo scenarios (installing full-featured Windows 8/8.1/10, creating bootable clone of Windows 8.1/10). Windows Recovery takes part in major updates of Windows 10 (such as Fall Creators Update), so functional Windows Recovery is essential for this OS to survive major updates in ToGo mode
- Driver slipstreaming feature for Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 now updates Windows Recovery Image (in addition to Windows Image and Windows Setup Image, as in previous versions), so Windows Recovery will be able to detect USB 3.0 peripheral HID and Windows Partition on NVMe/RAID storage devices. One more reason to slipstream drivers via FlashBoot Pro instead of sideloading them in Windows Setup

Prepackaged driver for Intel USB 3.0 Host Controller was updated, now it supports the following additional devices:
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15B5
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15B6
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15C1
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15D4
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_15DB
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_A1AF
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_A22F
- PCIVEN_8086&DEV_A2AF
- Backward navigation in wizard for cloning scenario was fixed (used to skip file/folder exclusion page)
- Grey background used to flicker occasionally on the splash screen, that's fixed now


FlashBoot 3.1
- Change log not available for this version


FlashBoot 3.0h
New method of UEFI bootloader installation for the following scenarios:
- PrepareWinVista78or10InstallerOnUSB_FromDVD_UefiMode
- PrepareWinVista78or10InstallerOnUSB_FromESD_UefiMode
- InstallWindows8or10ToUSB_FromDVD_UefiMode


FlashBoot 3.0g
Fixed the following error which occured for all scenarios with CHS geometry translation (DOS, Windows XP, BartPE) starting from FlashBoot version 3.0:
- Boot from USB disk failed, status
- Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot


FlashBoot 3.0f
- Fixed regression for Windows 8 which was introduced in FlashBoot 3.0d. Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 were not affected


FlashBoot 3.0e
- Added AMD USB 3.1 host controller driver to FlashBoot builtin drivers


FlashBoot 3.0d
- Change log not available for this version


FlashBoot 3.0c
- Fixed a regression in VFS code which was introduced in version 3.0b


FlashBoot 3.0b
- Starting from this version, it's possible to create self-extracting archives specifying root directory of some volume as a source directory


FlashBoot 3.0a
- Raw image writing: fixed stall of progress indication during zero padding operation
- FlashBoot size was reduced due to better compression of screenshots in the help file


FlashBoot 3.0
- New features: driver integration and creation of self-extracting USB formatter EXE files
- Dropped a lot of obsolete features related to floppies, CDs, DOS, Windows 9x and 10-year old versions of Linux
- Simpler licensing model: Free and Pro editions, without time/use limitations
- Free edition is useful on its own and roughly corresponds to other free tools on the market
- Most of features from version 2.x were moved to Free edition
- Simpler main menu, clearly separated "OS installer on USB" from "full OS on USB"
- Improvements in command line version: flexible arguments, faster start time