Top Bootable Tools

[GCS]

What are the top bootable tools you use?

Mine are:

Kon-boot v2 --password bypass
Acronis Echo Clone --hdd clone
BitDefender Bootable --virus removal
Chntpw (nt password tool)
ERD Recovery (ERD commander)
gParted --hdd /partition tool
Ophcrack --windows pw cracking
Passware-enterprise --windows password removal
Plopboot --boot utility
Super Grub boot disc --boot utility
Trinity Rescue Toolkit --like hirens
Ubuntu live cd --for hdd access or when I just need a raw terminal

 

[altrenda]

These days I seem to get by with gparted, a Windows 8 recovery disk, a Kaspersky rescue disk, and a Bootable OS X external hard drive, plus D7 on a flash drive. If I can't do what I need with these, I pull the drive and pop it in the bench machine.

 

[GCS]

I've been considering just building my own distro... or at the very least an all in one disk that'll boot up what I need.

A lot of tools are nice but only a few are something you'll reach for often.

 

[gunslinger]

Hiren's
Redo Backup
Active Boot Disc

If you can't do it with these 3 it can't be done with software.

 

[GCS]

Hiren's
Redo Backup
Active Boot Disc

If you can't do it with these 3 it can't be done with software.

I'm pretty interested in Active boot disc, thanks for mention it. I hadn't heard of it before.

 

[Bubbajoe]

Gandalf50's WinPE:

http://windowsmatters.com/2013/04/30/windows-8-based-pe-boot-disk-with-explorer-shell-and-all-my-favorite-apps/

 

[gunslinger]

I'm pretty interested in Active boot disc, thanks for mention it. I hadn't heard of it before.

I been using it for years and its one of my all time faves. I have it on a multiboot flash drive.

 

[acscva]

Check out http://www.gegeek.com/ and look on the left menu for Rescue Disks. All of them you will ever need there.

 

[NYJimbo]

memtest86+
Kaspersky rescue disk/usb
Offline password registry editor
hitman pro Kickstart
Windows Defender Offline whatever they hell they call it now....

Isnt there a list of these somewhere else ?

 

[Markverhyden]

Knoppix
Gandalf's W8 PE
KRD on a thumb drive
USB HD with OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

 

[marianoemilio]

Parted Magic
Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD)
Hiren's
Kon-Boot

 

[SpaceSquad]

99% of the time I rely on:

-Ultimate Boot CD
-Parted Magic...which is included in UBCD

Parted Magic is my favourite tool, UBCD offering some nice stuff like Offline NT Password Reset which I am very quick at using now.

 

[LifelineIT]

My Easy2Boot drive has the following:

MemTest
Hirens 13 Restored
Falcon 4.5
offlineNT
konboot (never use, though)
lxle
manjaro
parted magic
kaspersky w/ persistence
boot-repair-disk

And then the same drive has all my non-bootable tools too, D7, all my ketarin apps, my custom scripts, etc.

 

[Chilli]

I use YUMI

I had a spare 32G usb, so used YUMI and just flooded it with stuff http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

I tend to use the most:
GParted
Memtest86+
kon boot and Ophcrack when needed
Hiren's Boot CD for various tools, sometimes UBCD.. depends.
Linux off a stick.. mainly Xubuntu is my favorite, sometimes Slax for trasnfering files in a corrupted windows state too.
Clonezilla (Backup + Clone Tool)

 

[DanB]

My top tools

Hirens
parted magic
puppy linux with my favorite linux tools