Hiren's boot CD
It's a small ISO with tons of utilities on it. It's great for recovering data if shit goes really south. I always have one handy.
Edit: toss it onto your ventoy stick
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Hiren's boot CD is still kicking around?
Which Hiren's boot? The old official 15.2 or the new PE version?
I use the new PE version since it's still maintained and has had something to fix any of my problems so far.
I usually just carry around a few ISOs with Ventoy. More specifically, a Win10 ISO, Ubuntu ISO, Arch ISO, Tails (not iso but who cares), and a few others that I wanna be able to install if I ruin my current system to the point I can't boot it properly. I just noticed I still need a Fedora ISO. After watching the LTT video too, I'm looking into all of those cool utilities too, don't have any recommendations yet tho.
I got the most use out of my porteus install, mainly with gnome disk installed and testdisk for the dd failures, it being persistant and having a 32bit version for very old machines
I didn't realize you can have an OS ISO and other programs on the same USB stick. I thought the live boot ISO had to be the only thing on the stick (or multiple ISOs using Ventoy).
With Ventoy you can have additional files on the same partition. However Ventoy scans everything on that partition, so additional files can slow it down. I recommend creating a directory, say named "Files" and put an empty file ".ventoyignore" into it which makes Ventoy ignore that directory and all sub-directories.
Oh that's awesome.
It works, just watch out, Windows only recognizes the first partition on a stick as possible storage device.
No reason you can't also have a data partition on the drive, provided your drive is big enough.
I looking into buying the usb-c 3.2 gen2 from Kingston with up to 1000/900 read write speed and the minimum is 256GiB so space is no issue.
Yeah I have some decently speedy USB-A 3.0 drives, they're essential to me these days. Although I've filled them with too much crap to use as a boot drive for anything lol. They're only 400MBps, but weren't expensive.
One thing I've noticed though, it ends up saturating a pair of USB ports in a lot of computers. If I have a second thing in an adjacent port, eg a mouse, things get screwy (mouse movement gets choppy or speeds throttle).
DLC Boot has been my all in one repair ISO. Get it from FileCR.
I just have https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf because I want the zfs modules available. Everything I need is there
I personally don't have a dedicated toolbox USB anymore, since any repairs I do now are in my home and I can just set up what I need when I need, but when I did have one I used SARDU to handle setting it up to boot into a grub menu that I could use to launch multiple live boot environments.
It was real handy to have Hiren's Boot CD, a couple live boot antivirus tools, live boot gparted, a live boot lightweight linux like puppylinux, and a live boot of a more "standard" linux like Ubuntu all on the same USB. Just boot to it and select which one you need from the GRUB menu.
Besides live-boot utilities, I worked on Windows most of the time, so I'd have the sysinternals suite handy, a few ninite installers exes for quick batch installs of standard programs, and a kludged together set of portable apps.
There's a handful of "portable app" launchers for Windows, and each framework has it's own library of compatible apps. I mixed and matched from a few of them with some programs that had official portable installs. I think the frameworks I used were "PortableApps" and "Liberkey".
I had a portable hardened Firefox, a portable PDF reader (I think SumatraPDF), Notepad++ (has an official portable mode), 7-zip or Peazip (can't remember, one has official portable mode), Bleachbit with the extended application support configs, the LargeAddressAware patcher (to allow 32 bit programs to use more that 4GB of RAM), and I think Teracopy had a portable mode as well.
If I had to set one up again now I would probably see if there was a portable way to carry Powershell around as well. There's a ton of stuff on Windows that's just easier to config and troubleshoot through it. I also might include some Windows 10 and 11 debloater/privacy configuration tools too, but I'd need to do some research on which ones are actually useful/good.
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