![]() ![]() I also have a bunch of tools on a shared drive for specific cases, including the entire Kaspersky ransomware kits, rootkit detective, the McAfee stinger, and some other one-offs like Malwarebytes and CCleaner.įor password lockouts on non-domain managed machines, I have OphCrack (preferred because it displays the passwords instead of just bypassing them like other options), and I also have Magic Jellybean keyfinder to get cleartext on any non-managed activation keys. I used it to save a borked Server 2016 disk (VM hosting Exchange mailbox role) and the partitioner options saved my bacon. ![]() Add in multiboot capabilities with PXE and diagnostic/fix time plummets. The speed and responsiveness difference between the USB and network boot options makes it worth it alone. I have a WDS and MDT setup for imaging, and have 2 options in the PXE menu: The MDT path and a live Hirens W10 image. This is the one tool I ALWAYS keep a copy of. Go spend the $11 and get yourself a copy. It has hardware investigation and SMART tools, benchmarking, and partitioning. It supports hardware going back to like i486. This thing will boot into ram so you can unplug it after (excellent for those stupid single-usb-port laptops) or boot easily over a network. There are password recovery tools (ntpwch or something), partition recovery(testdisk), disk recovery (ddrescue), data/file carving (photorec), bootloader installers, support for all filesystems for which Linux compatibility exists including old partition table types such as Apple and ancient Unix stuff. ![]() It has kernel modules for all major raid cards as well as software drivers to use those raid arrays without the hardware. PartedMagic contains THE biggest array of system rescue tools I've ever seen. I'm surprised no one has mentioned PartedMagic (not to be confused with Partition Magic or gParted). ![]()
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