Bootable Thumb Drive

[slithernet]

I'm making a bootable thumb drive with all the best recovery and testing tools I can think of. Problem is I cant think of any other tools to put on it.

So far I have Hiren's boot cd, ubcd, ubcd4win, XP install disk image (dunno if the xp works yet), clonezilla, ubuntu, and orphcrack.

Anyone else have any ideas on other disks I should put on there or favorite tools?

 

[TimStitt]

What about Win7?

Also
- Active@ File Recovery Software & Web Service. Data Recovery for Windows XP 2003 2000 98 .... Also their partition recovery software is brillaint.
- Useful batch files and scripts that you may have
- oxid.it - Cain & Abel
- PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives.
- A packet tracer
- A Hex editor
- NFO reader

 

[slithernet]

I would love to boot win7 from my thumb drive, but the drive isn't large enough for that.

Thanks 4 the ideas, I'm adding active@, oxid.it, memtest+4.0 & 2.11 and partition magic now.

I already have editors tracers and file recovery tools on it.

Edit:

I probably would put win7 on it if I knew a way to boot a vhd with grub
I'm gonna go google it.

 

[TimStitt]

Try this for dual boot
Dell Mini Windows XP Ubuntu Dual Boot
It's XP but you may be able to get it working

 

[slithernet]

i was going to try to boot a vmdk of win7 but the smallest drive size is 8 gigs, my thumb drive is only 8 gigs

 

[SIW2]

I wouldn't recommend using Partition Magic - if you have an nt6 o/s-it doesn't understand the new partitioning rules.

This is a great free bootable partition mager ( fat and ntfs supported):

Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly to manage partition.

 

[slithernet]

Downloading it now, will try it soon.

 

[Bill]

I second staying away from Partition Magic - it never worked properly in Vista, I doubt it will in Windows 7..

You can give Paragon a try:

Paragon Partition Manager - hard disk partitioning software, resize, merge & split partitions

Sometimes you can download it for free on Giveaway Of The Day..

-Bill