what cool boot CDs do you know of?

[ingear]

I just made an boot up USB of

Win 10 install
and
Acronis True Image USB
I love both

and there is WinPE and many other cool projects ... might save out of trouble one day ...

what other cool boot up CDs/USBs that you have / heard of?

thank you ...

 

[Crono]

UBCD and DBAN are the ones that have been in my toolkit for a while.

 

[crashtech]

I still use Parted Magic, which probably means that it is not considered cool.

 

[lxskllr]

UBCD and DBAN are the ones that have been in my toolkit for a while.

I always liked ubcd4win to take care of windows machines, but it looks like that project's dead.

 

[Crono]

I still use Parted Magic, which probably means that it is not considered cool.

Oh, forgot about partition tools. I have GParted burned to CD/DVD, but I haven't used it in a while. I should probably make a flash drive version of it. UBCD does have Parted Magic on it, but it's nice having it on separate media.

 

[ToniSalmonelli]

SystemRescueCd, linux based.

 

[lxskllr]

Oh, forgot about partition tools. I have GParted burned to CD/DVD, but I haven't used it in a while. I should probably make a flash drive version of it. UBCD does have Parted Magic on it, but it's nice having it on separate media.

PartedMagic is more than just gparted. Is a full system rescue disk. I keep a copy around the the office, mainly for the included clonezilla.

It went to a pay system a few years ago, but you can download an older torrent here...

http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrents&category=421

It's worth a purchase though. It's $9 for one version(a little high), or $49 for a year's updates(ridiculous imo). I don't see any need for more than one version per year, and I'm still using an old version just fine.

 

[John Connor]

UBCD4Win saved my ass once. DBAN and a AOMEI Backuper disk is what I mostly use. I use AOMEI Backuper on a USB stick to clone my netbook to another USB stick. Problem is you have to boot the USB drive first and then quickly insert the other USB stick otherwise BIOS can't boot from AOMEI Backuper.

I also had a Micro XP install on a USB stick.I need to buy another USB stick for Tails.

SARDU is great too.

 

[radieroslaw]

https://falconfour.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/falconfours-ultimate-boot-cd-v4-61-patch/

 

[XavierMace]

CD? What year is this?

 

[HeXen]

None. Windows machine for gaming and Mac for everything else and with auto backups to external disk, why would I need one? I would just reformat, doesn't take long at all but haven't had to do anything like that since the XP days.

 

[crashtech]

Having a live OS on USB can be a helpful diagnostic tool, since it immediately separates OS/software problems from hardware problems.

 

[Humpy]

 

[Humpy]

 

[Red Squirrel]

CD? What year is this?

Good to have if you work on people's machines. Not all computers support USB boot. But yeah I don't keep much CD's around anymore. Personally I got out of working on people's machines as it's not worth the effort for the little that people want to pay, so I'm kinda behind in that scene.

Ones I do have off top of my head:

-Hiren's Boot CD
-Ultimate Boot CD
-System Rescue Suite, or something like that... someone gave me it once, I used it a few times, I can't remember what was special about it but it had some unique stuff. Diagnostics and stuff like that.
-Pretty much any Linux distro live CD/USB. Great if all you want to do is grab all the data before you do a format. Ex: WIndows 8 machines. I find it's easier to boot a Linux OS and use GUI or command line to access files than trying to navigate the horrible UI of Windows 8.

I have an external hard drive that you can load ISOs on and then emulate a cdrom drive, so that's usually what I use. It's nice as you don't need to burn any CDs. Heck I don't even have a cdrom drive in my main machine. Though sometimes I think of putting one as it can still come in handy. But 99% of the time I'd be using it to do people favours like ripping DVD/BluRays so it's easier when I can just tell them I don't have one.

 

[crashtech]

I have a case full of boot CD/DVDs, but it is getting really rare to need one these days. The machines that require their use aren't often worth the attention.

 

[SKORPI0]

CD? What year is this?

Correct. USB flash drives are the norm today.

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

 

[master_shake_]

boot cd's?? usb drives??

what the hell is this 2006?

pxe or gtfo.

 

[Ken g6]

My TV recording system runs on Puppy Linux on an old laptop.

 

[Red Squirrel]

boot cd's?? usb drives??

what the hell is this 2006?

pxe or gtfo.

Woah how did you do that? I've been wanting to set something like that up before but I can never find any info online on how to setup a multi boot PXE like that. I'd love to be able to just drop ISO files in a folder and have them available via PXE.

 

[SKORPI0]

boot cd's?? usb drives??

what the hell is this 2006?

pxe or gtfo.

That only works if the system you're working on is connected to a network with the needed bootable OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment

 

[John Connor]

I could never get PXE to work. Was a PITA.

 

[lxskllr]

I forgot. I have a drive in my wallet with lubuntu, and a bunch of windows portable apps. I took the case off the drive, and put it in a leather sleeve to help protect it. Haven't used that in awhile, but it's come in handy for diagnosing problems, or checking computers for gnu/linux compatibility. Next rain day, I'll update everything.

 

[master_shake_]

Woah how did you do that? I've been wanting to set something like that up before but I can never find any info online on how to setup a multi boot PXE like that. I'd love to be able to just drop ISO files in a folder and have them available via PXE.

i used this guide.

http://wtfhax.net/2011/10/pxe-part-1-because-booting-from-a-cd-is-for-suckers/
http://wtfhax.net/2011/10/pxe-part-2-useful-stuff-to-boot-from-network/

and if you want to install windows over a network use this

http://www.vercot.com/~serva/

 

[Staples]

Windows is a lot more reliable these days so you don't need them a whole lot anymore and when Windows has a problem, I do not have the success I used to in fixing it. I think bottling and backing up data then reinstalling is my preferred way to do things these days.