If you’re in the computer repair business then good valuable tools are nice to have around. Especially if you fit them all onto one little usb flash drive.

  • CentOS x86_64 Minimal
  • Clonezilla (Clone Hard Drives and SSDs)
  • Dan’s Boot ’n Nuke (Wipe out them pesky bits on the hard drive. :) )
  • FreeDOS
  • Gparted Live (Standalone Partition Editor)
  • Hiren’s Boot CD
  • Kali Linux (For the “hacker” in you. :P)
  • Linux Mint or your distribution of choice.
  • Memtest86+
  • NTpasswd (Reset windows passwords)
  • Ophcrack (Cracking simple passwords. Your mileage may vary.)
  • Puppy Linux (A small but simple Linux Distribution)
  • System Rescue CD
  • TinyCore (Another small Linux Distribution)
  • VMware ESXI (Could come in handy)
  • Windows Defender Offline

The tool I used to stuff all this onto a flash drive is called YUMI. So many tools can be crammed onto a 32GB flash drive and have spaced left over. I suppose more can be added but I also have 4 different versions of Kali Linux and Linux Mint 32bit and 64bit versions, 2 editions each.

Bonus points if you make all those bootable over the network for say a small network of customer computers. :)