What bootable USBs do you keep around?

[RONOTHAN##]

Bootable USB tools are very useful for building and troubleshooting computers, and I know there's got to be more of them around than just Memtest86 and Clonezilla. What ones do you keep around, and how useful are they?

 

For reference:

I've been the resident IT guy of my family and friends for a while, and usually keep a couple USB drives on me loaded up with Memtest86, Clonezilla, Windows installer, Ubuntu LTS, and a couple other Linux distros I enjoy for troubleshooting and other uses from time to time. I had recently gotten a couple more drives for Christmas, and wanted to load them up with more stuff.

[OhioYJ]

Super Grub2 Disk is one I keep handy, that I've found isn't one people commonly know / go to (amongst people I know). I'm sure it's more well known about around here. Rescatux also has quite a few handy tools, it's on that same site.

[LIGISTX]

12 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Bootable USB tools are very useful for building and troubleshooting computers, and I know there's got to be more of them around than just Memtest86 and Clonezilla. What ones do you keep around, and how useful are they?

 

For reference:

I've been the resident IT guy of my family and friends for a while, and usually keep a couple USB drives on me loaded up with Memtest86, Clonezilla, Windows installer, Ubuntu LTS, and a couple other Linux distros I enjoy for troubleshooting and other uses from time to time. I had recently gotten a couple more drives for Christmas, and wanted to load them up with more stuff.

I have not used this since I made my Win 10, 8, 7, XP, ubuntu and a few others.... which I did when Win 10 was "newish", but this is what I used to make a single USB stick with ALL of my ISO's, with them being bootable, on it all at once.

 

https://easy2boot.xyz/

 

Since I have not used it in a while, may be worth vetting yourself.... but man is it nice.

[RONOTHAN##]

Just now, LIGISTX said:

I have not used this since I made my Win 10, 8, 7, XP, ubuntu and a few others.... which I did when Win 10 was "newish", but this is what I used to make a single USB stick with ALL of my ISO's, with them being bootable, on it all at once.

 

https://easy2boot.xyz/

 

Since I have not used it in a while, may be worth vetting yourself.... but man is it nice.

Yeah, currently I'm messing around with a tool called Ventoy, which seems to do the same thing, and it really is nice. I've got one drive I've decided to dedicate to all these ISOs, 256GB Sandisk with both USB C and USB A ends on it (to take into account those laptops without any Type A ports for some reason). Currently I've got 32GB of ISOs on it, trying to get a little closer to that 256GB capacity.

[aDoomGuy]

Memtest and Windows install media. If I need the flash memory I'll nuke them but I got my 64GB empty mostly though. Kinda wanna get some smaller USB for Windows and Memtest since they're 32 and 16 GB respectivly....

[WhitetailAni]

I only make a Windows bootable USB when I need it since I use all my flash drives otherwise, but I recently discovered I had left one of my many 1GB flash drives as a bootable Mac OS 9 USB (you can boot USB flash drives on PowerPC Macs via OpenFirmware).

I then erased it and attempted to put Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar disc 1 on it but failed.

[Hyphen8d]

I just use the installation media tool from Microsoft, but i've heard good things of Rufus.