Lets make a PC fixing disk {Sticky? }

KdjaCL

My Pc fixing disk is now DVD/CD

Easyboot with Dos support for buggered HDs Altho i find whipping out the HD and using an enclosure is faster foir fixing buggered MBRs and XP related disk issues.
Belarc System check
AVG Free
Adaware
Firefox
Sygate free firewall
Windows XP Pro with Sp2 slipstreamed with legit licences (which i sell to user)ONly on DVD solves having service pakcs for older OSes


With updated virus files and adaware definitions on a USB key.

I have this an ISO which i update regularly and can host it on filefront without XP in it. What else would you add? The reason i have this is if the user doesnt want to give me the box (which i prefer) i go to their houses an like a ninja can have their pc running fairly quickly.

Anything to add and i host it?


kdjac

zoro

If you're making the disk bootable then I'd say it's almost useless without it including network drivers, and a copy of the Dos version of Ghost (tis free iirc)

KdjaCL

zoro wrote:

If you're making the disk bootable then I'd say it's almost useless without it including network drivers, and a copy of the Dos version of Ghost (tis free iirc)

Most pcs anyone would fix wouldnt be on a network usually home pcs. Never had a need for network drivers.


kdjac

pred racer

maybe some form of ghost/backup software, so after you fix it you can back it up for them? (is there something small that can do this?) :rolleyes:

RicardoSmith

An external disk or a 2nd spare IDE drive is the way to go. Backup their data and hook their original drive as a slave. I worked on a project where we migrated a few thousand PC's We would whip out the old drive into an enclosure, insert a new drive which had an image on it. Then had a custom tool to scan the old drive and copy the "relevent" data back on to the new PC in a "My old PC data" folder or similar. The old drive was labeled and stored. It used to take 15-30mins for each PC depending on the amount of data or if they had some odd datafiles or apps that the custom tool didn't pick up. Some times we just used the 2nd drive on the other IDE channel (disconnecting the CD if no cable) and didn't bother with the Enclosure.

Most people just want to get back working priority number, and get their old data second. If they don't have a backup policy, and in use already. Then they will be so disorganised and it will take you hours to sort them out. Untidy mind = untidy PC and data. So best to get the PC working and them leave them to sort out their data. We just did the basics of setting up their email/outlook/pst's, bookmarks, my docs and other data.

Karoma

HiJack This (SP?), memtest, undelete (of some form) :rolleyes: , SpaceMonger ..
partition magic, nghost or acronis trueimage (DOS pref.)..

edit: oh and DTemp
..and iperf

Webmonkey

Winsock Fix, LSP Fix...

thelad

cws shredder is a godsend too, Trojan Hunter usually picks up stuff that above mentioned doesn't

Standard Toaster

Hiren's BootCD 7.4 is the way forward tbh.
ISO weighs in at only 53.3MB

Partition Tools
Partition Magic Pro 8.05 Best software to partition hard drive
Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 Popular disk management functions in a single suite
Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1057 Universal tool for partitions
Partition Commander 9.01 The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature
Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.
The Partition Resizer v1.3.4 move and resize your partitions in one step and more.
Smart Fdisk 2.05 a simple harddisk partition manager
SPecial Fdisk 2000 SPFDISK a partition tool.
eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3 XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition
GDisk 1.1.1 Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more.

Disk Clone Tools
ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002) Best software to clone hard drive
Norton Ghost 8.2 Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)
Acronis True Image 8.0 Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning.
Partition Saver 2.80 A tool to backup/restore partitions.

Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus 3.16b Very good virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)
McAfee Antivirus 4.40 a virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)

Recovery Tools
Active Partition Recovery 3.0 To Recover a Deleted partition.
Active Uneraser 3.0 To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems.
Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.10 To Recover data that has been deleted/virus attack
Winternals Disk Commander 1.1 more than just a standard deleted-file recovery utility
TestDisk 5.8 Tool to check and undelete partition.
Lost & Found 1.06 a good old data recovery software.
DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100 An excellent data recovery software.
Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64 Another excellent data recovery software with many other options.

Testing Tools
System Speed Test 4.78 it tests CPU, harddrive, ect.
PC-Check 5.50 Easy to use hardware tests
Ontrack Data Advisor 5.0 Powerful diagnostic tool for assessing the condition of your computer
The Troubleshooter 7.02 all kind of hardware testing tool
PC Doctor 3.0 a benchmarking and information tool
Test Cpu/Video/Disk 5.6 a tool to test cpu, video, and disk
Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0 a tool to test Hard Disk Drive

RAM (Memory) Testing Tools
DocMemory 2.2b RAM Test utility
GoldMemory 5.07 RAM Test utility
Memtest86+ 1.60 PC Memory Test

Hard Disk Tools
Hard Disk Diagnostic Utilities Seagate Seatools Desktop Edition 3.02
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools
Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04c
Maxtor PowerMax 4.21
Maxtor amset utility 4.0
Maxtor(or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1
Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.30
Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0
Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 1.28
Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28
IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.04
IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.80
Gateway GwScan 3.15
MHDD 4.5
HDD Regenerator 1.51 to recover a bad hard drive
Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57 Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.
Norton Disk Doctor 2002 a tool to repair a damaged disk, or to diagnose your hard drive.
Norton Disk Editor 2002 a powerful disk editing, manual data recovery tool.
Active Kill Disk 1.1 Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.
SmartUDM 2.00 Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.

System Information Tools
Aida16 2.12 a system information tool, extracts details of all components of the PC
PCI and AGP info Tool The PCI System information & Exploration tool.
System Analyser version 5.3j View extensive information about your hardware
Navrátil Software System Information 0.58.6 High-end professional system information tool
Astra 5.10 Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant
HwInfo 4.9.7 a powerful system information utility
PC-Config 9.33 Complete hardware detection of your computer
SysChk 2.46 Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC
CPU Identification utility v1.8 Detailed information on CPU
CTIA CPU Information another CPU information tool

MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools
MBR Work 1.07b a utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions
MBR Tool 2.1.100 backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write...
DiskMan4 all in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more
BootFix Utility Run this utility if you get 'Invalid system disk'
MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1 BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR
Boot Partition 2.50 add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader
Partition Table Doctor 3.0 a tool to repair/modify mbr, bootsector, partition table
Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1 a multi boot manager
Bootmagic 8.0 This tool is for multi boot operating systems

BIOS / CMOS Tools
CMOS 0.93 CMOS Save / Restore Tool
BIOS Cracker 4.6 BIOS password remover (cmospwd)
BIOS Cracker 1.4 BIOS password remover (cmospwc)
BIOS Utility 1.35.0 BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more.
!BIOS 3.20 a powerfull utility for bios and cmos
DISKMAN4 a powerful all in one utility
UniFlash 1.40 bios flash utility
Kill CMOS a tiny utility to wipe cmos

MultiMedia Tools
Picture Viewer 1.94 Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes.
QuickView Pro 2.54 movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx.
MpxPlay 1.15 a small Music Player for dos

Standard Toaster

Password Tools
Active Password Changer 2.1 To Reset User Password on windows NT/2000/XP/2003 (FAT/NTFS)
Offline NT/2K/XP Password Changer utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.
NTPWD utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.

NTFS Tools
NTFS Dos Pro 5.0 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
NTFS 4 Dos 1.4 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
NTFS Dos 3.02 To access ntfs partitions from Dos
EditBINI 1.01 to Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition

Dos File Managers
Volkov Commander 4.99 Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support
(Similar to Norton Commander)
Dos Command Center 5.1 Classic dos-based file manager.
File Wizard 1.35 a file manager - colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc.
File Maven 3.5 an advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file
transfers via serial or parallel cable
FastLynx 2.0 Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability
LapLink 5.0 the smart way to transfer files and directories between PCs.
Mini Windows 3.11 Back to old days, use it as a file manager
Mini Windows 98 Can run from Ram Drive, with ntfs support,
Added 7-Zip which supports .7z .zip .cab .rar .arj .gzip,
.bzip2 .z .tar .cpio .rpm and .deb
Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor,
Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc...

Other Tools
Ghost Walker 2003.793 utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP
DosCDroast beta 2 Dos CD Burning Tools
Universal TCP/IP Network 5.4 MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based
network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based
network, it contains 85 different network card drivers

Dos Tools
USB CD-Rom Driver 1 Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive
Universal USB Driver 2 Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage
Interlnk support at COM1 To access another computer from COM port
Interlnk support at LPT1 To access another computer from LPT port
and too many great dos tools

Windows Tools
SpaceMonger 1.4 keeping track of the free space on your computer
Drive Temperature 1.0 Hard Disk Drive temperature meter
Disk Speed1.0 Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool
MemTest 1.0 a Memory Testing Tool
PageDfrg 2.3 System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP
Split Join 1.3.3 a Small File Split-Join Tool
Ghost Image Explorer 7.0 to add/remove/extract files from Ghost image file
DriveImage Explorer 5.0 to add/remove/extract files from Drive image file
Drive SnapShot 1.36 creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.
Active Undelete 5.0 a tool to recover deleted files
Restoration 2.5.14 a tool to recover deleted files
Startup Control Panel 2.8 a tool to edit startup programs
Startup Monitor 1.02 it notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup
IB Process Manager 1.02 a little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc.
HijackThis 1.99 a general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more
CurrPort 1.07 displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your computer
Unknown Devices 1.2 helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are
PCI 32 Sniffer 1.1 device information tool (similar to unknown devices)
Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06 find and remove spyware, adware, dialers etc. (a must have tool)

Won't link to it but it's easily found via google. A god send if your fixing PCs daily.

Webmonkey

It looks the job alright. Got an older version of that cd myself, must get myself this one.