Easy2Boot (E2B) is popular multiboot USB solution that also contains agFM and Ventoy. It supports both Legacy and UEFI.
Simply copy on your bootable ISO files to the E2B USB drive and boot! Boot to DOS, Linux, Windows Install ISOs (XP>Win11),
automate Windows installs, WIM files, VHD files, images of flash drives, Linux ISO+persistence, etc.
E2B is unique in that it uses partition images which allows you to directly boot from Secure Boot images (no need to disable Secure Boot or run MOK manager or modify your UEFI BIOS).
Thanks for great post! This worked great with a CD, but every time I use a bootable USB, it blue screens. I follwed the instructions in your other post about using Yumi. I get past the ERD loading screen and then it blue screens after the Windows logo screen. Any ideas?
Off the top of my head, you have:
Ultimate Boot CD Opens a new window
Hiren's Boot CD (Original, boots into Linux) Opens a new window
Hiren's Boot CD (New, created by different people, uses a Windows 10 PE environment and has less tools but most of what you might need is there) Opens a new window
With the Hiren's tools, Rufus will work with the old one, they have instructions and a specific tool for making the new Hiren's as a bootable USB, I suggest using that. I believe Rufus will work, but I also recall having some issues.
ERD Commander was a Winternals tool that was a paid product, and MS acquired them a long time ago. It has been updated and renamed MS DaRT Opens a new window, but remains a paid product. If you Google things like "Hiren's alternative" you'll find many other similar types of free tools, but I haven't really heard of any of them. I've been a Hiren's user since the late 90's, so it's my go-to when I need something like that. Ultimate Boot CD has been around about as long, so it should be pretty good as well.
Anyone that remembers the old Sysinternals/winternals ERD Commander boot CDs, MS DarRT is what it's called now (since MS bought them). It supports all the methods of booting that WinPE does since it's actually based on PE.
A common use of USB flash drive is to use it to boot into Windows. In this article we will show you a simply and workable method to create an ERD Commander Bootable USB flash drive. A bootable USB can be used as a replacement for CDs and DVDs, and it allows you to perform diagnostics on a computer that is having trouble booting from the hard drive.
Actually the easiest way to set bootable USB flash drive is to use the tool offered by Microsoft, named Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. You can get it from Microsoft Store and then follow the basic steps to install it into your computer.
After setting your USB device as the first boot device, your computer will check it for boot information each time your PC starts. Leaving your computer configured this way shouldn't cause problems unless you plan on leaving the bootable USB device attached all the time. If you face any problem, you can write about it in the comments sections
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT), formerly Emergency Repair Disk Commander (ERD Commander), is a set of tools that helps diagnose an offline copy of Microsoft Windows. It comes on a bootable disc and is run during computer startup. It can uninstall installed hotfixes, perform crash analysis, recover deleted files and access System Restore's restore checkpoints on the offline operating system in an environment similar to Windows graphical user interface.
A. ERD Commander is a fantastic tool by gives access to NT systems by booting off modified Windows NT setup diskswhich allows access to not only the file system but also the registry and manyother items to enable you to recover an unbootable NT system. It also givesaccess to removable media allowing you to replace corrupted system files,something you otherwise can't do without a second NT installation on themachine. The professional version also allows you to change passwords fromoutside of NT!
Note:If you create a bootable ERD Commander Professional CD (versions 1.06a orlower), the program continues to ask for disk 4 for the FTDISK, PASSWORD, &CHKDSK commands. This will be fixed in the next version.
Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphicaluser interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy forburn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virusscan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows PreinstallationEnvironment ("WinPE"). Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to MicrosoftWinPE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other thanstated in the End-User License Agreement include in your version of MicrosoftWindows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builderand does not endorse its use.
Please do not contact Microsoft for support on the preinstallation environmentthat has been created by PE Builder!
Microsoft does not provide support for PE Builder or for the preinstallationenvironment created by PE Builder.
The PE Builder program (pebuilder.exe) runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003. It does not runon Windows NT4/ME/9x.
Locksmith is one of the useful utilities inside ERD Commander bootable CD, which allows you to reset and recover Windows login password easily. Before you do that, you have to get and install DaRT(ERD Commander is part of the DaRT) on an alternative computer. Then run program and create a recovery CD/DVD from Start Menu to with it.
First up, ERD is now CD-ROM bootable (new). Nearly all systems which are capable of running an NT-based OS well will support bootable CD-ROMs by this point in history. This is preferable to a cavalcade of floppies, being both more reliable and certainly much faster, and it also removes the previous hassle of building rescue disks, etc. Once you boot up, you can take advantage of ERD's Event Log viewing capabilities (new). System, security and application logs are there for the viewing (and for searching). If you're lucky, the cause of your problem will be laid out before your eyes. If you're not lucky there will be a gaggle of error messages that are poorly descriptive and turn out to be dead ends. But to have access to this material in such as easy fashion is a boon to any support tech.
Description: SystemRescue (formerly known as SystemRescueCd) is a Linuxsystem rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating orrepairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way tocarry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the harddisk partitions. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilitiessuch as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnightcommander, network tools). It can be used for both Linuxand windowscomputers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires noinstallation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive orUSB stick, but it can beinstalled on the hard diskif you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext4, xfs, btrfs,vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS.
A computer running Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, and equipped with a CD-RW drive. CD-ROM burning software capable of creating a bootable CD from an ISO image must be installed in that system.
After you carry out these basic steps, ERD Commander 2002 Boot CD-ROM Wizard extracts all files required to build a bootable CD image (Fig. 14.10). Note that the newest release of this program doesn't require the distribution CD for this purpose (in contrast to the previous version, ERD Commander 2000, which did). After this operation is completed, the Wizard will provide you with the option to include OEM drivers for SCSI devices that Windows XP doesn't support automatically. Finally, the Wizard will provide you with the option of including additional files in the bootable CD image (Fig. 14.11).
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