Best Bootable ISO's to have on a USB Stick? Making own USB tool kit just which tools?

[malice19]

Hi All

I am often out and about fixing works/mates/family's PC's and have often found that the software i need has been left at home when i need it most.

So i have found a way to have all my utilities software on one USB stick with a boot menu. Only thing is its a large USB stick and wondering what other bootable ISO software is out there that would be useful when trying to fix a PC from not booting, resetting a password ect.

At the moment i have on my USB toolkit

• ERD Commander (but does not reset win 7 password)
• Memtest
• Windows 7 Pro
• Win PE
• Easus disk clone software
• Partition magic

If any of you experienced chaps could recommend some software that you found very useful then please post and if possible with a link

Thanks for your time and Posts

[g8ina]

I'd install a copy of Ubuntu onto a stick so you can get into stuck OSs lower than Win 7 as not all hardware would support Win 7.

[malice19]

Dam just tested trying to boot ERD Commander off the stick and it loads up but then BSOD : (
Have tired setting the boot image to load into RAM and without but both BSOD... not sure what i am doing wrong? As works when i just make one USB stick with it on?

Software i am using to create a Boot menu with all the ISO's on one USB
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-mu...t-usb-creator/

[g8ina]

cant help but smile at the skimlinks ad link for the boot ERD commander

[teppic]

Parted Magic. It contains lots of stuff to help with recovery, and can do a secure erase on an SSD too.

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start

[Sputnik]

Ultimate boot CD ?

[jim]

Quite, don't see yet why you're doing the hard work when UBCD and UBCD4Win have been around for so long.

[malice19]

Any one ever used MSDART? As ERD commander no longer exists : (

[Fortune117]

Ahhh, theres an episode of Hak5 about this here. Really enjoy the stuff that these guys do, learn so much from them.