Comments on: Use Your USB Stick As a Key to Boot Your Windows PC

By: Encryption Software

Encryption Software — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:07:26 +0000

Since all computers share basically the same necessary startup programs, what is stopping a hacker from having several discs with different combinations of the basic types of programs on them and trying each of them on your computer until one of them is enough to boot it?

By: Pierre Madden

Pierre Madden — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:57:18 +0000

Booting from a USB or encription are both rather complicated. My simple solution is to keep all my files on my USB and carry them with me in my pocket. My computer could be hacked, stolen or destroyed and it would not make a difference for the integrity of my data, including all website passwords. A “stupid” machine is a secure machine.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:29:40 +0000

Farooq: Boot.ini is not used in vista, the whole boot manager has been changed. So it is not entirely easy to do these modifications if you don’t know your way around computers.

You should search for a specific vista guide, or hope that Varun makes a vista version.

By: Farooq

Farooq — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:37:07 +0000

How to do all this in VISTA. I cannot find “boot.ini, NTLDR and ntdetect.com” in VISTA. Can u plz help me how to do this process on vista???

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:46:52 +0000

My computer uses F8 to boot into the bios. Donâ€™t assume things if you donâ€™t know!!

By: sayOZ

sayOZ — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:38:26 +0000

i think is funny not a safe secure mode

By: Teddy

Teddy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:07:37 +0000

Why not just use TrueCrypt to keep everything you want private away from prying eyes? At least you wouldnâ€™t be under a false sense of security, which is what this hack creates…

By: Abdh

Abdh — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:34:01 +0000

Amateurish and utterly useless solution, indeedâ€¦….

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:15:54 +0000

It’s worth noting that the caveat at the bottom is VERY true! Not only can they boot from a Linux LiveCD but people can also boot Windows up without the files on your USB drive:

Using the Windows recovery console you can: (i) recreate boot.ini file (bootcfg /Rebuild) and (ii) aquire the ntldr files.

This is still a very creative way to start your machine up though!

By: kenny

kenny — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:37:00 +0000

This post is not recommendable for beginners,as they try themselves out of ordinary and gets into trouble…