The ULTIMATE tech thumb drive???

[lazerorca]

Hi guys I'm thinking about ordering me one of the larger sized thumb drives today in order to have a sort of have a swiss army knife of stuff available to me right there on my thumb drive. What are some of the things you guys use and would put on a drive like that?

 

[mrapoc]

easy2boot. nuff said

 

[Larry Sabo]

The question has been addressed many times before. May I suggest you do a search of the forum, starting here (although I thought I recently saw notice that Ketarin is no more).

 

[lazerorca]

easy2boot. nuff said

whoa! This is AWESOME! Making up a USB drive right now with what I have!

 

[cypress]

You may also want to throw D7 on there while it is free.

 

[TechSource]

Sardu.
It's rock solid and works for 90 percent of the standard situations.

 

[Pixelated Tech]

I also use YUMI Multiboot. It is similar to easy2boot and sardu.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

Hi guys I'm thinking about ordering me one of the larger sized thumb drives today in order to have a sort of have a swiss army knife of stuff available to me right there on my thumb drive.

Don't buy a size larger than what you need, its better to have 2 usb flash drives with the stuff you need than to have 1 usb flash drive and something go wrong on a job.

Edit: I don't even do a lot of in person repairs but I still have a cheap usb cd drive, several flash drives, and a zalman ve-200 and several boot discs.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Also, be careful what kind you buy. For example, I have a local Microcenter nearby, so I'm always buying stuff in there. But when I buy their flash drives and set them up as bootable, it seems like the microcenter brand flash drives I've tried so far, on a lot of systems don't like to boot them. Unsure why. Case in point, going to install Windows 10 on a laptop recently, my 16gb Microcenter usb 2.0 drive would make the machine go into a loop when trying to boot. In other words, like the dots when it loads would start, then machine turns off, posts again, same sequence over and over. My PNY 8gb, no problem.

Now if the system was started and I needed to plug in my MC drive to back up or move things around, not a problem at all.

 

[Altster]

easy2boot. nuff said

I've tried (using various web browsers) to download this program and cannot get it for the life of me. So I'm using Y.U.M.I. right now and it is filling the bill for me.

+1 for PNY flash drives. I've had real good luck with any of them I've ever used.

 

[mrapoc]

I've tried (using various web browsers) to download this program and cannot get it for the life of me. So I'm using Y.U.M.I. right now and it is filling the bill for me.

+1 for PNY flash drives. I've had real good luck with any of them I've ever used.

http://files.easy2boot.com/200001528-846168558b/Easy2Boot_v1.76DPMS.7z

 

[OaksLabs]

(although I thought I recently saw notice that Ketarin is no more).

Where did you see this? The Ketarin website (http://ketarin.org/) looks alive to me...(I run some somewhat mission critical app updates with Ketarin, and it hasn't died on me...).

 

[Larry Sabo]

@OakLabs, sorry, but I don't recall. If/when I find it, I'll update the thread.

 

[Altster]

http://files.easy2boot.com/200001528-846168558b/Easy2Boot_v1.76DPMS.7z

Got it and as it turned out I had to update my copy of 7-zip too!

I'll be giving this a really good looking over.

Thanks again.

 

[Ktex]

Best flashdrive I've got is a Kanguru flashblue with write protect switch. All my malware and antivirus programs are inside and believe me, I have had innocent little laptops try to write into it.

 

[MrBojangles]

Isostick

http://isostick.com/

I'm definately getting one of these soon. Boot any iso natively+ write protection. Seems awesome