What bootable "live" images of useful tools?

Crack0n7uesday, 5 months ago

Hiren’s boot disk is the only answer to this question. I heard they updated it a few years ago.

Nica, 5 months ago

chntpwd (Reset credentials on a Windows disk)

trevor, 5 months ago

netboot.xyz

disheveledWallaby, 5 months ago

Testdisk, clamxTK, rkhunter or chkrootkit, mobile verification toolkit, lshw, time shift maybe deja-dup.

I think your idea is a good one. Like a linux Swiss Army knife. You can have lots of tools that you don’t need all the time but might be handy in a pinch. Especially if you don’t have internet.

TarquinNimrod, 5 months ago

Testdisk is great. I recently cleaned a drive with diskpart and after the initial 100bpm “oh shit, wrong drive” moment, I fixed the partition structure with testdisk. Took a while, but pretty simple and easy to use.

BuckShot686, 5 months ago

UNetbootin could be cool, it’ll provide access to mamy iso’s instead of just one.

Distro’s supported:

<span style="color:#323232;">- Ubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Kubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Xubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Lubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Debian
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- openSUSE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Arch Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Damn Small Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- SliTaz
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Linux Mint
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Zenwalk
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Slax
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Elive
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- CentOS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- FreeBSD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- NetBSD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- 3CX
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Fedora
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- PCLinuxOS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Sabayon Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Gentoo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- MEPIS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- LinuxConsole
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Frugalware Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- xPUD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Puppy Linux
</span>

It can be used to load various system utilities too, such as:

<span style="color:#323232;">- Parted Magic
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- SystemRescueCD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Super Grub Disk
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Dr.Web Antivirus
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- F-Secure Rescue CD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Kaspersky Rescue Disk
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Backtrack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Ophcrack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- NTPasswd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Gujin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Smart Boot Manager
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- FreeDOS
</span>

IsoKiero, 5 months ago

Not spesifically a tool to put on a USB stick, but Ventoy is worth checking. I’ve had a bit mixed results with it on older hardware but when it works it’s pretty easy to manage your carry-on-tools.

hiddenSin, 5 months ago

I second Ventoy.

Bluefruit, 5 months ago

Ventoy is pretty great. Ive screwed quite a few usb sticks by flashing isos and now i can just put all the isos on one drive. Its a good tool.