what boot cds is everyone carrying

[reesk92]

what boot cds are you all carrying

i know there's the obvious like

ubcd dos
ubcd win
knopix

but are there any less know ones your carrying
id like to make a tread where we could list and update the list of boot cds as new ones come out a bit like the repair tool of the week list

 

[gunslinger]

Knopix, Hiren's, and Active@

 

[NYJimbo]

LiveCD from Lsoft (active@) plus other free ones.

 

[studiot]

First thing I would like to say about disks I carry.

Never carry the original. Always take a copy and store the original safely.

Second thing is to remember that many AV and utilities have bootable recovery disks or are bootable.
eg Symantec, Panda.........

Third important one is a BartPE to run check disk on unbootable systems and use the AC43 explorer like file management utility.

 

[holyspidoo]

A non-automated Windows XP cd (so I can do Repair - chkdsk /p)

A good BartPE to restore the registry, or to delete malware files that I couldnt delete in safe mode.

I never carry Antivirus recovery CDs. On site, if you cant clean it with combofix/smitfraud/autoruns/PE-manual-delete, prolly faster to just reformat everything.

And Knoppix... I've had it screw up hard drives too often to even consider it anymore. BartPE can do it all. It is the single most important tool in this biz.

 

[iptech]

UBCD Win
UBCD
XP Professional
Dr Web
Hiren's

 

[stevenamills]

And Knoppix... I've had it screw up hard drives too often to even consider it anymore. BartPE can do it all. It is the single most important tool in this biz.

Although I've never had Knoppix screw up a hd, I'll certainly never say it can't happen.

I love the BartPE based tools, but they can't do it all. Many, many times I've pulled files from disks with a Linux boot disk - generally Knoppix - that Windows based disks couldn't even see.

 

[seedubya]

Trinity Rescue Kit.

 

[Kenhelms]

Hirens
knoppix
Ontrack ERboot
Trinity Rescue Kit

and of course,

KONBOOT, I hate it when its password protected and they arnt there.

 

[seedubya]

KONBOOT

So this will allow me to logon to a password protected user account without either knowing, changing or blanking the password?

 

[Kenhelms]

That is correct. It will boot to the cd, you press space and it boots the computer up.

All hashes, etc, as far as I know and have found are left intack.

 

[abe]

yup konboot just monitors the startup and removes the SAM password, its great for working on PC's.

active password remover and similar just remove the password completely which is good for times when you need to do that.

Abe

 

[seedubya]

yeah I use Offline NT Password & Registry Editor for password removals but a system that allowed me access to the machine without changing the users password is excellent.

Thank you both for your replies.

 

[studiot]

Trinity Rescue Kit.

The trinity disk is the only password one I have never seen fail, even when others have done so, including Spotmau. and OHP

 

[Kenhelms]

Backtrack

I was waiting to see who would pop this up

 

[reesk92]

Backtrack
UBCD
Acronis
UBCD4win
0pthcrack
Ubuntu
HDD regen
DSL
Puppy Linux
DFT
CentOS
Debian NetInst
Gparted
Knoppix[/QUOTE]


do you do alotof network work then if you use back track iveonly seen it used for network pen testing ...... HAK5 RULES

 

[derHugoz]

Vote: ophcrack LiveCD

Helped me out a few times.

 

[Markus]

BartPE
Reatogo X-PE
Parted Magic
UBCD
Offline NT Password and Registry Editor

 

[lward1]

Backtrack
Acronis
UBCD4win
0pthcrack
Ubuntu
Gparted
Hirens 9.7

I used to have a Reatogo X-PE but I thought they stopped the revisions back in 2006, maybe I'm just not looking in the right place.