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

By: Windows XP registry cleaners

Windows XP registry cleaners — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:12:04 +0000

Thanks for this – I really like making my PC boot up with the USB and have been looking for a tutorial like this for a long time.

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)

By: Computerden

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

quite practical

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.

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.

By: a

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

Very few computers will boot to a usb thumb drive.

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.

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.

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.