I tend to carry about a WD 320gb and 500gb My Passport with me in tool bag. I also tend to carry around about 10 different usb keys for various things. But as of today, I bought a 32gb usb at Frys for $60. I'm hoping to be able to eliminate the need for a majority of the smaller keys with this 32gb. I happen to have an 8gb that has an image put on to it that magically appeared from the "demon" that has TONS of tools that we listed here and many more. I'm in the process of taking what was shown in today's episode and what is on this image to be able to do a massive key with most of the general repair, recover, restore tools along with BT3 (persistent), BT4 (persistent), Mint7 (persistent and install), WinXP installer, Win7 32bit & 64bit installers, Server 2003 and 2008 installers.
Just to give you guys an idea how this one was setup, here is the menu.lst from the image...
splashimage /boot/face.gz
timeout 30
default 0
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# Windows installation
title Install Windows 2003 R2 SP2 English - First and second boot
root (hd0,0)
configfile /winsetup.lst
savedefault
title
pause
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# Live CDs
title XP PE - UBCD4Win v3.50
root (hd0,0)
chainloader /minint/setupldr.bin
title BackTrack 4 - Pre Release (submenu)
root (hd0,0)
configfile /bt4.lst
savedefault
title Vista PE
root (hd0,0)
chainloader /bootmgr
title Vista Recovery CD
##ISO file must be contiguous on disk in this case, use Sysinternals contig.exe
map (hd0,0)/images/VistaReco.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
title Ultimate Boot CD 4.1.1
##ISO file must be contiguous on disk in this case, use Sysinternals contig.exe
map (hd0,0)/images/UBCD411.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
title Hiren's Boot CD 9.9
##ISO file must be contiguous on disk in this case, use Sysinternals contig.exe
map (hd0,0)/images/Hirens.BootCD.9.9.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
title
pause
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# Tools
title Acronis & Paragon utilities (submenu)
root (hd0,0)
configfile /acropara.lst
title Parted Magic 4.2 (submenu)
root (hd0,0)
configfile /pmagic.lst
savedefault
title Norton Ghost 11
map --mem (hd0,0)/images/ghost.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
title BootIt NG 1.86
map (hd0,0)/images/bootitng186.ISO (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
title Active Password Changer 3
map --mem (hd0,0)/images/pant.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
title Peter Nordahl's chntpw 080802
map --mem (hd0,0)/images/chntpw-cd080802.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
title OnTrack Data Eraser 2.02
map --mem (hd0,0)/images/DE.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
title OnTrack Data Recovery 6.10
map --mem (hd0,0)/images/DR.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
title Disk tools (submenu)
root (hd0,0)
configfile /disktools.lst
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#use the following for reference, uncomment(#) and change as needed
#title Start Vista, find and load bootmgr
#find --set-root /bootmgr
#chainloader /bootmgr
#title find and boot Linux with menu.lst already installed
#find --set-root /sbin/init
#configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
#title SystemRescueCd-0.4.x from hard-disk
#root (hd0,0)
#kernel /rescuecd init=/linuxrc cdroot=/dev/sda1 setkmap=us
#initrd /rescuecd.igz
#title Puppy Linux on HD0
#root (hd0,0)
#kernel /puppy/vmlinuz root=/dev/rd/0 pmedia=usbflash
#initrd /puppy/initrd.gz
#title Start Recovery Console of Windows NT/2K/XP
#find --set-root /cmldr
#chainloader /cmldr
#####################################################################
# write string "cmdcons" to memory 0000:7C03 in 2 steps:
#####################################################################
### step 1. Write 4 chars "cmdc" at 0000:7C03
#write 0x7C03 0x63646D63
### step 2. Write 3 chars "ons" and an ending null at 0000:7C07
#write 0x7C07 0x00736E6F
#title Start Acronis True Image/Disk Director from ISO loaded in memory
#map --mem (hd0,0)/acronismedia.iso (hd32)
#map --hook
#chainloader (hd32)
#title Start Acronis True Image/Disk Director from ISO
##ISO file must be contiguous on disk in this case, use Sysinternals contig.exe
#map (hd0,0)/acronismedia.iso (hd32)
#map --hook
#chainloader (hd32)
#title Start MemTest from floppy image on second hard disk/third partition
##image file can be gzipped, i.e. memtest.img.gz
#map --mem (hd1,2)/memtest.img (fd0)
#map --hook
#chainloader (fd0)+1
#rootnoverify (fd0)
#title Chainload the bootsector at third partition, fifth hard disk
#chainloader (hd4,2)+1
#title Start Windows XP if it's on second hard disk
##ntldr/ntdetect.com won't start if are not on first disk, first active partition, thus the mapping
#map (hd1) (hd0)
#map --hook
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#chainloader /ntldr
#title find and load IO.SYS of Windows 9x/Me/DOS
#find --set-root /io.sys
#chainloader /io.sys