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Hey everyone! Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I have been using hirens 15.2 boot cd for trouble shooting for a long time and its lack of uefi support is no fun. 
with that said I have tried hirens pe and its still not all that I am looking for as its missing some of the features I like in 15.2 (namely victoria hdd test & repair tool works wonders on spinning disks). I would love to know what bootable tools you guys use in the industry.
currently I have a multi boot usb with falcon4boot hirens 15.2 and hirens pe none seem to be what I need.

current usage for the bootable tool
hardware diagnostics (mostly hdd / ssd diag)
data recovery ( I normally use DD rescue but it does not seem to be very successful with SSD's )
hard drive cloning ( I have used acronis macrium and many others I still prefer partition wizzard home edition)
virus / malware removal and scanning (normally boot into a pe version of windows 10 and run eset online scanner)
local account password resetting ( I use nt pw reset in hirens pe and it works fine)
secure data removal (currently use dericks boot n nuke)
if yall have suggestions on a more efficient way to improve my work flow that would be great! 


fwiw I work for a managed IT service provider.

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7 minutes ago, emosun said:

might be a dumb question but are you mostly moving drives to your own diagnostics machines or trying to boot off of the machines that need diagnosing themselves?

no dumb questions, Both, I have a diag station set up in the office but in the field for say a ssd swap I would prefer to boot up outside windows and clone the clients drive to the new ssd.
 

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