PC Repair Software

[Ruger22C]

What programs should I have for doing PC repair? i.e., hiren.

 

[lxskllr]

UBCD4Win
Gparted
Ubuntu CD
Clonezilla
Sysinternals Suite
Nirsoft tools(can't remember exact name)

 

[Ruger22C]

Sweet list! Thanks man.

Anyone have more tools to add? I'm especially looking for hardware testing.

 

[Modelworks]

Deft linux can do just about anything needed.
http://www.deftlinux.net/about/packets-list/

 

[lxskllr]

Deft linux can do just about anything needed.
http://www.deftlinux.net/about/packets-list/

That looks interesting. Downloading now :^)

 

[jobz]

Ultimate Boot CD, from their site, consolidates as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.

• Memtest86+
• HD Diagnosis tools from various manufacturers
• Parted Magic, contains GParted
• etc

 

[AFurryReptile]

Malwarebytes.

That's probably all you'll use 99% of the time

 

[WildHorse]

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[jobz]

Speaking of BART, you might also want to take a look at LiveXP + portable apps. Basically you build a lean, fast-booting PE once, and then you add portable apps to it, which are picked up at runtime, without having to rebuild.

You can find a helpful tutorial here, search for Adding Portable Apps to Your PE - LiveXP and W7PEX!
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4111

 

[WildHorse]

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[jrjiri]

Crap.. Solid thread here guys.. Hirens, Ultimate, and BART PE were all I'd used before but apparently old dogs can learn new tricks.

Timely too as I have a PC that's acting really odd and I have zero time to go hunting for the needle in it's haystack.

Thanks for the suggestions.

EDIT: Ahhh that Windows memory diagnostic is just a fancy memtest? Should I even try it or am I wasting a disc?

 

[bendixG15]

memtest (latest version) is good enough for me

 

[Ruger22C]

I didn't get NirSoft because it looks like you have to download each tool one at a time..?

Deft will be in this list soon, just finishing download.

Does anyone have something to add?

Added Afterburner.

 

[Emulex]

hiren's boot cd 9.8

 

[Ruger22C]

12.0 is there.

 

[lxskllr]

I didn't get NirSoft because it looks like you have to download each tool one at a time..?

Try this link...

http://launcher.nirsoft.net/download.html

 

[Modelworks]

Here is another one.
Roadkil utils
http://www.roadkil.net/downloads.php

The disk utils are great.
Disk wipe app works good and so does the sector editor.

 

[Modelworks]

Try this link...

http://launcher.nirsoft.net/download.html

when you download the newest one windows or your AV may warn you against it. The file is safe. It contains an application that can show the windows serial number and so they think it is malware.

 

[lxskllr]

when you download the newest one windows or your AV may warn you against it. The file is safe. It contains an application that can show the windows serial number and so they think it is malware.

Yea, Sysinternals Suite does that also I believe, as does the UBCD4Win package.

 

[Modelworks]

I forgot about one of the programs I use most. Process Hacker. I set it to replace windows task manager for alt+ctrl+del it works so good. Similar to sysinterals process explorer but has more features for figuring out things like what programs are running inside of svchost and what they are doing.
http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/index.php



You also need a registry editor.
Regedit works for most things but sometimes you will run into systems that the malware has disabled regedit so it cannot run, the only way to fix it is access the registry since they can also lock out rights in security preventing you from changing the permissions on regedit back .

There are not that many good free ones. One I found is here:
http://www.tonysfp.com/langfp/english/index.php

 

[Ruger22C]

Nice.

Quite a list of tools I have going here, with your help and others.

Thanks.