Comments on: The PC Repair Toolkit in your Pocket: Boot CD on a USB Stick

By: karlyn

karlyn — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:52:32 +0000

my problem is i have a dell c400 (no internal cd drive) running xp. last year something happened & now it just goes to black screen when trying to boot (won’t even let me get into safe mode).

since xp won’t let me use usb for booting (making external cd drive unable to use), how can i repair?

i tried using usb cable to sata/ide to my other laptop & running xp installation to repair, but windows said it can’t load to drives attached via usb.

i thought i saw a tool on makeuseof last year that made xp support usb booting, but i can’t find the article anymore…PLEASE HELP! (thank you)

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By: Computerden

Computerden — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:19:37 +0000

quite practical

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Ultimate Boot USB! ~ IT Professionals — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:08:52 +0000

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By: Real Ultimate Power « Pat’s Daily Grind

Real Ultimate Power « Pat’s Daily Grind — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:47:52 +0000

[...] Instructions here on how to make an Ultimate Boot CD… on a USB stick, instead of a CD drive. Obviously useful if the CD drive is not operational, or because a USB stick is pretty easy to carry around, while CD’s don’t exactly fit in your pocket. [...]

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Mon, 19 May 2008 15:52:05 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:41:11 +0000

I love that you can put it on a thumb drive but unfortunately I have a lot of friends and family members with older computers that may be a little tough to get booting from a USB drive, the bootable CD is a great universal tool and although having it on a thumb drive may be handy having it on a CD is absolutely crucial.

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links for 2008-05-17 « LAN b4 Time — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:31:15 +0000

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links for 2008-05-16 at iSingers — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:33:08 +0000

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By: oldhick

oldhick — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:20:40 +0000

This is pretty old news but not bad. Unfortunately, the one time I could have used this to be helpful, the PC’s BIOS wasn’t capable of booting from Linux.
But you can have some fun stealing passwords with this and wreaking havoc.

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Fri, 16 May 2008 14:34:46 +0000

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Fri, 16 May 2008 08:02:39 +0000

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By: Run the Ultimate Boot CD from Your Thumb Drive [How To] | Another Way To Be Rich

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:52:51 +0000

[...] The Pen Drive Linux weblog details how to install the Ultimate Boot CD, a popular system recovery tool, directly to your thumb drive so you can carry your emergency recovery toolbox in your pocket. We mentioned Ultimate Boot CD’s thumb drive-ability when we highlighted UBCD as one of the top 10 free system recovery tools, but Pen Drive Linux steps through the process and includes links to all the files you’ll need to download to set it up. The guide is clear and easy to follow, so repurposing that extra thumb drive as a system recovery drive should be a snap. Install and Boot Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) from a USB Thumbdrive [Pen Drive Linux via MakeUseOf] [...]

By: a

Fri, 16 May 2008 03:57:28 +0000

Very few computers will boot to a usb thumb drive.

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Fri, 16 May 2008 03:05:20 +0000

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By: Matt M

Matt M — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:02:36 +0000

Not to mention that as a tech myself, i find waaaay too many users that have computers that don’t have a bios that supports booting from USB. They’re a lot more common than you might realize. A knoppix live cd with diagnostic tools or a PE cd might be a tad more useful.

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The PC Repair Toolkit in your Pocket: Boot CD on a USB Stick | Simple Drops — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:14:43 +0000

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By: Tarek Koudsi

Tarek Koudsi — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:01:51 +0000

A practical method, but dude, I would definitely embed more stuff on that stick, OS related and file-system tools are always on demand. Virus and spyware scanners come in handy at times when called for a PC problem.

By: business

business — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:59:11 +0000

You are a life saver. Just what I need! You’ve been Dugged.

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links for 2008-05-16 « Simply… A User — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:36:37 +0000

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By: fuderyuu

fuderyuu — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:35:36 +0000

What I’d really love to have is actually a UBCD4Win on my USB stick.

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AndrewGribben.com » Blog Archive » links for 2008-05-15 — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:39:33 +0000

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By: blaszta

blaszta — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:57:23 +0000

Do we need this if the UBCD alreay support USB (although experimental)?

If you wish to try the experimental option of running UBCD from a USB memory stick, you will need to either burn the ISO file to a CD first, or extract the files within the ISO file to your hard disk using a suitable utility. Then, use tools\ubcd2usb\ubcd2usb.bat to write UBCD to your USB memory stick. Note that ubcd2usb.bat will format and erase your entire USB memory stick. Due to its experimental nature, some or all of the UBCD apps may not work even if your machine supports booting from a USB memory stick.

Take from: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:31:19 +0000

I agree that some of the software packages are not up to date. But, unless you have the skills or time to roll your own, they all work pretty well to do the job. If I have problems with one, usually one of the other ones works well enough to get the job done!

By: diverdan

diverdan — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:53:26 +0000

i’m not a fan of ubcd. yeah it has tons of really useful utilities, but i find that there is so many redundant applications and many times much older versions than the current versions.

i find that in theory, ubcd is a friggin great idea. but in practice, it’s really hard for them to keep everything up to date. that is of course if you roll with your own custom rescue cd and hand select what you want on it.

i much prefer to have a bunch of utilities with me that i know are updated and work well. of course all tested and verified before i work on my client’s machines.

what do you guys think?