Advertisement Out of all the tools at a technician’s disposal, one is the most important. Inside my Do you repair computers?
If you do, there's a lot of household supplies you can throw in your 'computer repair' bag and cheaply replace otherwise expensive chemicals and tools. For example, you can swap expensive. I keep a USB flash drive loaded with the most amazing tools on the planet: my PC repair toolkit. Three tools that I have found invaluable are the (UBCD), and (AiO-SRT). These three programs can resolve a wide Live CDs are perhaps the most useful tool in any geek's toolkit. This live CD how-to guide outlines many uses live CDs or DVDs can offer, from data recovery to enhancing privacy.
Album Torrent
On top of that, the toolkits provide powerful hardware troubleshooting tools. Creating a Boot CD or USB Live Disk Live USBs can boot in place of the operating system (OS). This method bypasses software problems that prevent your computer from starting. So if you’re trying to rescue important data or diagnose troublesome hardware, this method circumnavigates many pitfalls that would otherwise prevent your OS from loading. Most technicians carry around a USB drive that can boot a toolkit. Typically, an image of the toolkit is burned onto a USB drive using an imaging program, like. Other programs can create live USBs, such as.
You can even create bootable CDs, known as live CDs, using the same techniques and tools. However, the easiest method is using UNETBOOTIN and a USB flash drive.
Here’s a YouTube video demonstrating how to create a live USB using UNETBOOTIN. The directions differ slightly from those in the video. After downloading the toolkit image you need and running UNETBOOTIN, perform the following steps:. Select the Diskimage radio. Click on the rectangle with three dots and choose the disk image that you downloaded. Select your USB drive. Make sure you don’t accidentally choose the wrong drive.
Click on OK That’s it! You now have a bootable USB drive. Any machine you wish to boot with this drive must be set to boot from USB, so this might mean Inside the BIOS you can change basic computer settings, like the boot order.
The exact key you need to strike depends on your hardware. We have compiled a list of strategies & keys to enter., also known as BIOS. Ultimate Boot CD After booting from the drive you’ll see the UBCD menu. Parted Magic After booting from the Parted Magic live USB, you’ll see this menu: Among Parted Magic’s many capabilities, you’ll also find tools such as:. Disk cloning and disk partitioning tools,. virus scanning abilities,. remote Desktop (tips for A Remote Desktop connection is a great way to service a remote computer from the comfort of your home.
But it can be tricky to set up. Our troubleshooting tips should come in handy.), and. secure disk erase tools. However, keep in mind that the free version is nearly four years old.
The newest version of Parted Magic costs $9. Download: Parted Magic 2013 All In One System Rescue Toolkit After booting from the All In One System Rescue Toolkit (AiO-SRT), you’ll see this menu: Among the many capabilities inside of AiO-SRT, you’ll find. desktop sharing tools,. basic apps from Ubuntu,. disk cloning, partitioning, and erase tools,. Windows password reset tools,. stress test software, and.
a browser. Download: All in One System Rescue Toolkit Windows Standalone Executable One of AiOSRT’s best features is that it also comes in the form of a standalone Windows executable. That means you can run the software from within a functioning Windows system, which cuts down on compatibility issues caused by Secure Boot. ( Secure Boot should prevent tablet and PC owners from installing their own OS choice on a Windows 10 device - but thanks to the accidental leak of the 'golden keys', Secure boot is dead.) If you run the Windows executable, it automatically launches the autoFIX script, which launches a hardware monitoring program and a CPU/GPU stress test program. It then initiates a virus scan and hardware and software diagnostic programs. Download: All in One System Rescue Toolkit Windows Standalone Honorable Mentions.: Trinity Rescue Kit bundles many of the resources found in the other toolkits into a powerful toolkit. It includes all the featured mentioned in the other toolkits, such as password recovery and secure erase apps.: Kali Linux isn’t a complete toolkit.
It’s designed specifically for security testing.: One of the oldest and most trusted names in toolkits is Hiren’s Boot CD. Like the other toolkits, Hiren’s Boot CD comes loaded with repair tools and can be installed to USB.: SystemRescueCd offers an array of Linux-based tools for troubleshooting hardware and software problems. Which Toolkit Should You Use?
All three toolkits roughly compare to one another. However, UBCD possesses a big advantage: Parted Magic comes inside of UBCD. Unfortunately, UBCD’s copy of Parted Magic is over three years old. Between the UBCD and AiOSRT, I prefer the latter. It offers both a Windows executable and a bootable image that can be burned onto a flash drive.
What’s your favorite Windows toolkit? Are there any that I missed? Let us know in the comments! Originall written by Dave drager on 14 May, 2008.
In the new iso created by the patcher, the following files have truncated names: F4UBCDSweeperx64– Download updated definitions, save as mpam-fe.exe here.url – — Download updated definit.ur F4UBCDSweeperx86– Download updated definitions, save as mpam-fe.exe here.url – — Download updated definit.ur HBCDWINTOOLSCONTENTADVISORPASSWORDREMOVER.CMD – CONTENTADVISORPASSWORDREMOV.CMD HBCDWINTOOLSPROTECTDRIVEFROMAUTORUNVIRUS.CMD – PROTECTDRIVEFROMAUTORUNVIRU.CMD HBCDWINTOOLSWRITEPROTECTUSBDEVICESONTHISPC.CMD – WRITEPROTECTUSBDEVICESONTHI.CMD I don’t know if this is important. I have found a way to do this, however, I can’t remake the ISO. I can make a bootable USB and add all kinds of stuff to it and it works great, however, if I try to make it into the ISO using the instructions in the readme.txt using ImgBurn 2.5.8.0 I get an error every time. Even just using WinRAR to extract the base ISO to a folder and making the ISO without modifications gives me the same error.
Any Ideas on what I can do different. The error is during MiniXP loading. It is “INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing. Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit. Crappy!:/ The MiniXP loader is.VERY.
touchy, and it falls apart at the slightest provocation. It’s case-sensitive in the file system, and that causes a ton of problems when it’s re-burned. You’d be amazed how much time I put into ironing out those bugs in the beta process.
Ultimate Boot Cd Torrent
Then I have to go and make a patcher that tries to do it automatically on users’ own systems. ? Can’t tell exactly what problem causes that, though. “txtsetup.sif” is actually inside the “XP.WIM” file, but chances are the error is indicating some other file can’t be read – either because it’s supposed to be in a different case, or because the filesystem wasn’t built with Joliet (UDF can’t be used). Thanks Bill ? It should be up again though.
As for patching it, you’ve got to be using Windows of course. If you drag a file onto a program, Windows will run the program – but it’ll put the name of the file you dragged as the command-line parameter. I designed it to be easy to use that way, and so I didn’t have to go through presenting and verifying a “browse” box (though, with as much verification as I put into the parameter-checking, I may as well have just added a browser). If you can’t get it to work by drag-and-drop, you can do the same thing by running the patcher as follows: patch-exe-4.61-thingie.exe path-to-4point6-iso For example: patch-exe-4.61-thingie.exe c:usersfalcondesktopf4ubcd-46.iso.
Some things I have encountered problems with and didn’t see any hotfixes yet. So this is for information to all of you and hopefully the next version will have these changes. Problem: Cannot find ccleaner.exe or defraggler.exe if opened from menu under (real) windows. Fix: The.cmd file is expecting the piriform pack to be.uha, it’s.7z The working command for ccleaner would be: @pushd “%dp0″ @7z.exe x -o”%TEMP%HBCD” -y FilesPiriform.7z c. w. @start “” /D”%TEMP%HBCD” “CCleaner.exe” and for defraggler: @pushd “%dp0″ @7z.exe x -o”%TEMP%HBCD” -y FilesPiriform.7z d. @REG ADD HKCUSoftwarePiriformDefraggler /v UpdateCheck /t REGDWORD /d 0 /f @start “” /D”%TEMP%HBCD” “Defraggler.exe” Actually the updatecheck can be left out and a temp cleanup would be nice thing to add.
I’ll probably add it to my cmd-s later, if i have enough time to customize the bootcd. Problem: Cannot use KonBoot if booting F4UBCD from USB.
Fix: Just add find –set-root /HBCD/Boot/konboot.gz to the beginning of konboot entry in menu-lst. I also deleted map –floppies=1. Would be good to add this as an extra menu option for universal iso.
One other thing that’s unconvenient – to open hbcdmenu under windows (which i do a lot), because almost always the autorun is disabled by system. A little shortcut under root should do the trick.
A little question too. How did you make the image for HBCD dos tools? I would like to use a more recent one for my bootusb.
Thank You, Falcon, for making this ultimate swiss army knife of IT technicians possible! I know You probably have only a little time to dedicate for this project. Okay, this is REALLY frustrating. I’ve wasted two days and a lot of bandwidth with this and I still have nothing to show for it. The patch to 4.61 doesn’t work.
It kicks out errors of “unsupported compression method” and produces 0 byte files. Downloaded it 4 times with the same result.
Can’t download the full 4.61 iso as the Mega site seems to require installing some stupid browser extension to download it and I have absolutely NO intention of doing that. So here’s a thought. Why not do everyone a huge favor and replace the outdated 4.6 torrent with one for the up to date 4.61 instead of all of this monkeying around with patches. The way it is now I have little, if no confidence that this “so-called” ultimate boot cd even works based on how poorly the download process has been implemented. I don’t have any such problems with any of the other Rescue CD’s like Trinity, Hirens, System Rescue, the other Ultimate Rescue CD, etc., only yours. So unless you did a considerably better job of coding the actual CD than you did the patch or the download process it doesn’t look like this is worth the time or effort. Note that it seems to work for everyone else And Mega does not require any stupid browser extensions, it’s pure HTML 5.
The patcher just integrates the files and rebuilds an ISO, so if you have trouble running it, there’s a good chance you’re doing it wrong. In the end, 4.61 just patches some of the BSOD errors people get in MiniXP, and loading it on a USB flash drive works just as well if you replace F4UBCDMiniXPStart.cmd with the one in the patch. Of course if you can’t extract the ISO you have for 4.6, then, duh, you have a bad download. I have no problem extracting the ISO, but I don’t understand what that has to do with anything. The instructions state to extract the patch, not the ISO file and it’s the PATCH that gives the errors of unsupported compression method which makes it impossible to run the patcher. Sincer I have absolutely NO problems decompressing other archives (and I do this a lot) I know that that problem isn’t with me, it’s with the archive itself. 7-Zip is more than capable of handling 7z files as that is it’s native compression format.
But just maybe the problem is that the archive requires some other decompression program. Care to tell us what program you created the archive in? That might tell us something about what the problem actually is. As for Mega, I can assure you that it throws up a windows requiring the installation of their extension to download the file in Firefox. If you don’t install the extension it does NOT download the file.
Here is a screenshot of the message exactly as it appears. Free download song shree radhe radhe radhe barsane wali radhe. I was finally able to download the 4.61 ISO from there, but I was forced to do so on a computer with Internet Exploder, something I try to avoid using. I’ve been on the internet since the mid 1970’s when it was still the Arpanet so I’m not some newcomer to all of this. I may not be a programmer, but I know full well how to download from the net and extract archives. I did it when everything was done using a command line nearly a decade before a GUI was even dreamed of. I used tools like Archie, Veronica, Gopher, Lynx, and other forgotten tools long before there was anything even remotely like a browser so don’t even try to say I don’t know what I’m doing. Let me guess, F4UBCDNirsoftNirsoft.uha?
Yeah, I had the Nirsoft tools packed with Hiren’s UHA format to try to head off those exact kinds of false positives. If you look up the name of those “trojans” or other detections, you’ll likely find that they’re detecting.tools. that are commonly used by malicious software, e.g. Password stealers, keyloggers. Seeing as though you’re scanning a.tool.-kit well ? It’s up to you how you want to use those tools (though I’d definitely prefer it was kept legit, I can’t control how you use them). If you find a legit trojan, though, I’d love to know where you downloaded it from, and know that the official distro (on KickassTorrents and Pirate Bay) certainly doesn’t have that kind of crap in it.
When you're regarded as the resident PC troubleshooter for friends, family and colleagues, it's important to have a good selection of tools to hand for when you need to sort out someone's computer and retain your reputation. And assuming that the PC is sufficiently OK to be bootable and to have internet access, this is generally pretty easy. Just download what you need. Or, if things are looking bad, you can at least copy any important files off the computer via the network.
But what if the Windows installation is so corrupted that the machine won't even boot? You can reinstall Windows, of course, but by the time you've also reinstalled all the applications too, it's a task that will take a long time. One of the best ways to diagnose and examine an unbootable PC is to use a bootable rescue disk (normally a CD, DVD or a USB stick).
Booting from the rescue disk gives you a usable, albeit minimal, operating system from which you can check out the problem. One really useful such tool is the Ultimate Boot CD from FalconFour. It comes in the form of a downloadable file in 7Zip format. You'll need to extract it, and then burn it to either a CD or DVD. Then just reboot the PC from that disk, and you'll have a basic operating system pre-installed with dozens of tools to help check out the machine. Assuming the hard disk is readable, and it's only Windows that's broken, you can copy data from the broken machine over the network (there are drivers for wired and wireless networks included), and also access the web via a portable copy of Firefox that's also present.
There are also loads of other useful programs installed to help troubleshoot the computer, none of which write to the hard disk so it's perfectly safe. FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD is a rather large 670 MB download from (follow the link to the v4.61 download). It's a safe site, according to Web of Trust, and my own antivirus software suggests it's safe.
VirusTotal was unable to scan it because of its large size. Definitely one to download, burn to CD or DVD, and keep safe for when it might be needed in the future. And of course it's totally free of charge. Note: This disc won't work on Windows 8 PCs, because of the different hard disk format used.
Boot Cd Iso Download
Please rate this article. I gleaned from the members posts that 4.61 is up to date (does not need the patch)? I downloaded the 4.61 from the Mega Co nz (their old site) Was pretty quick 700 KB/s It presumably was downloading to some temp folder, which I could not see readily. At the end, it then offered the save dialog,which I accepted into my C: DOWNLOADS folder It is now in there and is called - FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD v4.61.7z The size is 671,230 kb 7-zip and WinZip cannot open it Life was not meant to be easy, Rob PS I will now try from their new site (AND choosing to use my browser rather than megasync) WARNING If any of you are tempted to try their megasync, then image your hard drive first. The new site's download (via our normal browser download) fails at 14% So I fired up a spare PC, which already has a recent image (thank goodness) They insist you create an account, and then you choose which folder on your PC will be synced to your 50GB free cloud (This they insist on). After confirming my account via my provided email address, the megasync program completes it's installation, and proffers/suggests your folder that will be downloaded to.
No choice here, except you can choose to make it a more visible folder, than the one they suggest (down that flippin Documents and Settings mineshaft). I used c: MegaSync Then that dialog (change the folder location) started 'machine gunning' in and out of the Task Bar. It took a stick to kill it.
I even disabled Avast (which was spinning like a mad woman), to no avail. I finally managed to get their downloader/uploader running (it's doing both).
PPS Once it is running you can click the icon in the Sys Tray to see the uploading/downloading. If you are brave enough to let it complete, then get your family to tie your hands to the chair, as you won't like what you are seeing. The final download is 687,614 KB, and it opens in Winzip and 7-zip I will spare you the extra details of the mess that process was, and caused.
Any of you prepared to go through what I just went through, will need nerves of steel, and patience of Job. or to post comments. @lunchbeast I applaud your caution - and thank you for your post.
It reminded me that I had forgotten to download and burn F4UBCD when I first posted in this thread. So I tried it in a SandBoxie environment.
World snooker championship 2009 game free download for pc. All went well, the 'mega' part did not install any extension or plugin. It looked like it is an in-browser mechanism to download more than one stream or thread concurrently. And I did not check their promises either, lazy.
A download of this size would 'normally' take MUCH longer and it showed that I got the max speed possible on my connection. Merry Christmas and happy lunches.;). or to post comments. I went back and tried it again. The download screamed for the first several seconds, hitting 2.5Mb/sec, at which point the download generated a fake 'Out of memory' exception and requested installation of the Mega browser extension. When I clicked OK, contrary to your results, an extension was in fact installed in my browser.
However, the worst part then was that the download process became extremely unstable, generating a constant stream of 'Temporary error, retrying' messages and never getting past 40% complete. Tried several times to download the file, but each effort was the same - started out fine, then fake-died with the request for the Mega extension, then constant errors. Finally abandoned the effort after several hours and yanked the Mega extension back out of my browser.
Hope that's all it installed. or to post comments. Ultimate Boot CD is completely made up of freeware except for the ASTRA 14 day demo, whereas the FalconFour one has a fair amount of commercial software on it, some of which is very old. The version of Hiren's Boot CD which is incorporated into it is an older version (13 or 14 I think), from before Hiren removed all the commercial stuff. They're both good. FalconFour has more on it so is tempting from that point of view but Ultimate is better if you want to stick with freeware. or to post comments.
Any time you have a tool like this with the collection of utilities it has you are going to get to get false positives. I've been using Nirsoft (NirSofer) utilities for many years and used to quite often get false positives with some of their utilities. I been using NirLauncher for a couple years now (something like that), also known as the Nirsoft or NirSofer Package, and if you scan it with just about anything like VirusTotal you will get false positives with it because of the utilities it contains. or to post comments.
I downloaded EasyUHA separately from Hiren's site , it (and its companion file uharc.exe) both scan clean with MBAM, Comodo AV and Emsisoft. On Virus Total, EasyUHA.exe scores 2/50 and uharc.exe scores 1/50 What AV do you use? I noticed that AVG is one of the AVs that red-flags EasyUHA on VT (labels it with the trojan name that you mention). It's possible that AVG just dislikes the way that UHA works as a packer/unpacker, there might be more info on the AVG forums. (.Edit; Sorry, I just noticed that you do actually say AVG:)). or to post comments. Just a quickie.
The hook up game download. Sure, the Wii U is a special case because of all the control schemes it offers, but it’s a lot of hassle to be able to play games. Other platforms aren’t immune to this, either. Want to plug a standard pair of headphones into your Xbox One?
I've a relative who isn't a geek by any means, but could definitely make use of this super find by Rob. The only thing is, having now tipped him off to Rob's article, my cousin has come back to me to say that somewhere on the F4UBCD website is a caveat with words to the effect,.don't download this. if you don't know anything about torrents. Is there a link I can point him to for a quick crash course (doh: unfortunate phrase) because I really don't want to have to spend time, emailing him not only about rescue CDs but also about how-to-work-with-torrents??????. or to post comments.
X-boot is also very good, it does pretty much the same thing. The only issue with this and with Yumi is that not all bootable CD/DVDs work properly from USB. For instance MiniXP fails to load up the installed list of Hiren's tools from USB (this is a known issue discussed on the forums) and some Linux distros won't boot at all in my experience, although to be fair I often have the same problem running Linux from CD as well. It takes a bit of trial and error to discover what software will run happily from USB and what won't. or to post comments. No, Hiren's Boot CD hasn't had that software on it for the last couple of versions at least.
I've not had a proper look at this one yet but I think it contains a lot of the same freeware/shareware as Hiren's plus some extras such as Nirsoft and a 'heavily modified' version of Hiren's MiniXP whatever that means. System Rescue CD is I think quite sparse compared to these two although I tend to keep a copy of both handy. Thinking about it though I don't know what the position is with MiniXP. Hiren's removed all the previous commercial software to stay within the law but still has MiniXP on it. or to post comments.
Comments are closed.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |