http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html
I like having spacesniffer as well. It can help really show you where you need to trim the fat sometimes if capacity is an issue.
This too is extremely useful.
Since I live in a dorm at college and my backpack is usually a few seconds away I keep a key ring of usbs with me.
One one I key zorin os install, my current favorite linux flavor, for whatever I may need linux for. One has a copy of windows 7, useful for gamers. one I use for random file storage, one I use for school file storage, and one I use to store like tools and stuff like malware bytes, ccleaner, ect.
The only thing that I really use on my USB "toolkit" is a small linux distro. Don't really need anything else.
Well if you are familiar enough with Linux I'm sure you can fix Windows from inside Linux. I am barely familiar with Linux as of this point in time.
This is an extremely useful collection of tools. Also includes bootable live windows, dos and linux enviroments. All the windows utilities extract themselves into the Temp folder and run without needing to be installed.
Available for download here: http://www.hirensbootcd.org/
Can be made into a bootable usb stick. http://www.hirensbootcd.org/usb-booting/
Other than this, I keep an up to date copy of Combofix, Ccleaner and Malwarebytes. (They are included in the hirens collection but are out of date).
This is useful if the system is unbootable due to malware. http://support.kaspersky.co.uk/viruses/rescuedisk/
I also use this, which can be added to the hirens boot menu, for the Boot-repair tool with is very good for windows and linux boot issues. http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-secure/
Once I figure out a method of booting a windows installer disk iso from the hirens boot menu then you will need nothing else.
I usually have multiboot on my usb and from that i boot several iso's and distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Backtrack (for sniffing Wlan), and pretty much all the recent windows operating systems. I also carry Hiren's boot CD iso. Also my favourite one is Trinity Rescue Kit and is one of the best tools working with linux kernel.
this would be a good tech tip for me to do.
ADWCleaner
JRT
CCLeaner
Malwarebytes
Combofix
TDSSKiller
Roguekiller
Rkill
Firefox Portable
Chrome Portable
MiniXP
OPHCrack
HDDRegenerator
Clonezilla
Seagate tools
MemtestX86
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windows password eraser.
ubuntu distro
I have USB with a Linux distro on it (Linux Mint), and then I keep a USB with a bunch of utilities like Firefox Portable, 7zip, and Ccleaner
PuppyLinux
MSE Installe
Portable Firefox
Portable Sketchbook Pro
Malwarebytes installer
Ccleaner
This is a great thread, something I've been wanting to do for a while too.
I'll try and make a few USB's like this, a portable Win 7 sounds like a good idea.
Why you need TFTS's Admin Control Panel of course! :D
but in all seriousness I'd definitely add Luke's Setup Assistant in there for sure. That's like a USB toolkit in itself!
then add hirens and falcon4s i also have crunchbang (my current favorite linux distro for grabbing files from windows drives) and you be golden ;)
- Puppuy 4.3
- Wary Puppy 5.2
- Trinity Rescue
- FuguIta
I need to get a larger USB drive and redo it someday. Maybe add Hirens.
-ccleaner
-cpuz
-foobar2000
-Hyperterminal
-Irfanview
-RealTemp
-SpeedFan
-VLC
-7Zip
- Firefox and Chrome
-Ubuntu 12.04.3
I can not even explain how useful Hiren's BootCD is. The link that I provided has a list of everything that is in it: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
Seriously. This is the only thing I run on my toolkit, mainly because I can boot up a Mini Windows XP with ALL of the utilities that I ever need in a couple of seconds.
Not only can you boot into that, you can also boot into GParted, a Linux distro (if memory serves me), and also Memory Checking and stress testing.
Hands down, if you need an All In One USB tool kit, Hiren's BootCD can not be beat :D.
I personally keep 1 64MB flash drive, dedicated to just having spinrite installed(old but ensures that I will never repurpose it).
Other than that, I have a few other flash drives which have different linux distros with persistence. I then have then configured to connect to my home VPN server.
This is largely because sometimes I will have to use a public computer, and I do not trust the network, so I will boot into a linux distro which will automatically connect via opnvpn to my server, thus allowing more secure network access, and also avoiding some of the malware on the system.
other than that, I do not being much with me, if I will be working on a couple systems for repair work, I will examine the situation, then bring the appropriate tools in addition to a bunch of other common tools.