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@Sathish_903 жыл бұрын
seriously bro 4 usb, hmmmm i heard i can do it in a single drive. (ping me if you know the tool or you want the tool)i am sure no 4 usb drive needed. I Am a System / Network Administrator i tech my team not to have so many drive evey one has 1 and it contain all what u said. again ping me if you know the software or you want the software. i will give you clue it name start in V and end in Y.
@NehorayPerets3 жыл бұрын
I used Rufus a lot untill I know Ventoy and I think that Ventoy is better
@MDRAyo3 жыл бұрын
I recently discoverq a tool in windows called diskpart. I don't know if you know it but it is the equivalebt of cmd but to manage the partitions and the drive and it is really more powerfull than the tool that everyone use so you should use it.
@MDRAyo3 жыл бұрын
There is also an operating system called tail. It was made to maximise your anonymity and it is really powerfull, you can even manage your disks on it so you should take a look at it.
@Yadobler3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the 🤔 TJ watermark
@Prithvidiamond3 жыл бұрын
ThioJoe, I must say that you have seriously redeemed yourself from being an active KZfaq troll to being a teacher who teaches everyone who to be their own IT services guy. I really appreciate the change you have taken. Not a lot of people change for the better but you have, keep it up!
@aredjay43423 жыл бұрын
what did he do as a troll, im confuzed?
@sam60003 жыл бұрын
@@aredjay4342 he used to make videos where he would teach you how to "Double your CPU cores for free" or "How to turn your ps3 into a ps4". They were obviously not actual life hacks, but he sounded really smart talking about it, and although any adult who already knows about tech may deserve it for thinking they somehow cheated the system, a lot of the people who watched his videos were children at the time, and although the steps he described in the videos weren't going to make you delete system32 or anything like that, it just gave us naive kids a false hope, and we felt betrayed. If you wanna see his old videos, he privated all of them, but you can still watch them through a playlist on his youtube channel.
@darwisyaiman18653 жыл бұрын
Try the april fool joke first🤣
@zethcader64783 жыл бұрын
Still, kinda miss his old content
@Prithvidiamond3 жыл бұрын
@BULL FADE I had unsubscribed too until 1 year back when I saw he was back to making genuine videos again. So I subscribed just to see if he ever goes back to being a troll. I am happy to see that even after 1 year the dude has stuck to making genuine content that benefits people, so I think I shall leave my subscription on (until he goes back to trolling again of course!).
@UltralifeTech3 жыл бұрын
I’m also here to mention Ventoy. I have ~20 isos ready to go.
@samulimahkonen86043 жыл бұрын
Im also rockin Ventoy on my one old usb-ide 100gb hard drive. Use Ventoy guys.
@cyberp0et3 жыл бұрын
@@samulimahkonen8604 That sounds just great :)
@scartyz7623 жыл бұрын
Yeah literally who pays for lots of usb drives when you can just buy one
@cindrmon3 жыл бұрын
i was supposed to mention that too! ventoy is the true multitool!
@raymondgradzewicz3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm using Ventoy too, so nice to not have to redo all my isos just because arch updates every month, like I did with YUMI.
@octopusonfire100 Жыл бұрын
A couple points about the Ubuntu live USB: - Sometimes you can't mount a Windows drive in write mode because it is in some sort of hibernation state. You can bypass this by using the switch remove_hiberfile of the mount command. - You can set up a persistent USB, which will save your Ubuntu configuration even if you shut down the machine. It's a little bit more complicated but easy to follow from any of the many tutorials you can find online.
@lforlight Жыл бұрын
An Ubuntu drive is handy. One time I had a positioning program that has a boot manager feature built in. I only launched the program and it set the boot manager up, except it didn't actually function. When next I turned my laptop on, it showed me the program's logo and a blank boot menu. Basically locked out of my own computer, I contacted the company whose logo plagued my laptop. While dealing with the support, I remembered I have an Ubuntu CD, from the time back when Ubuntu would send you CDs for free. It let me bypass the faulty boot menu and access my files. I asked the support lady if this could help. She told me to delete a file or two, and that neutralized the rogue program. Ubuntu live CD saved my laptop. Bootable USB drives are basically that.
@peterp.wanabe9299 Жыл бұрын
'neutralized'
@lforlight Жыл бұрын
@@peterp.wanabe9299 You are absolutely correct. Phone keyboard probably messed the word up. Thanks.
@nerilancioni1873 жыл бұрын
If you have a big enough USB drive, you can use Ventoy! It's a tool that makes your USB bootable from BIOS/UEFI and MBR/GPT partition tables (literally any PC) and you just drag the ISO files into it. When booting it displays a list of your ISOs and you can select wich one to run. Recommendation: Format the biggest partition with as exFAT to have files bigger than 2GB (I.E: Windows 10 ISO file)
@rexthewild1183 Жыл бұрын
That’s what i was thinking the whole duration of the video
@tr4x1ymus4 ай бұрын
yup get a 128gb flash drive that has both typeA and typeC slap ventoy on it and go ham with the tools and ISOs. My personal list would include: w11, w10, hirensbootcd, latest ubuntu LTS, and whatever else you want. You can also make a folder on the drive with scripts and installers for the most basic programs and drivers.
@Ptolemy2205Ай бұрын
He made another video about ventoy.. guess he probably saw the comments about it, or found it somehow after doing this one
@kemy5368 Жыл бұрын
if you use ventoy, you can have one USB drive with all the tools on it.
@tomhorsley6566 Жыл бұрын
You can even do it manually with a bit of extra work.
@dionnix Жыл бұрын
@@tomhorsley6566 yes, but ventoy makes it simple :)
@INTJRECLUSE3 ай бұрын
Thank you. That suggestion was very helpful as I had never heard of ventoy before , and I was just starting to set up 12 different thumb drives, but now I have it all on 1. 👍
@DMNL23 ай бұрын
Ventoys for ever 🙂 I'm nothing without my usb 129GB key with Ventoys and like 80 isoz to choose from 🙂
@kenny-ze8eg2 ай бұрын
One thing tho. You'll want your hirens boot cd on its own usb, then the rest on a ventoy drive. When you have it on ventoy, the anti-virus will only scan at the application level instead of system level. It is good to have it on ventoy also tho.
@johnszatkowski68982 жыл бұрын
An absolute MUST! I use a free disk imaging software that makes in image of my main drive every week and stores it to a secondary drive. My computer just recently became "unstable" so I booted off a USB prepped thumb drive and restored my system from 7days prior and works like a champ! I also backup my critical data to a NAS every hour so I really lost nothing and had to do a little bit of tinkering with NO major loss! An hour of lost data is nothing compared to MONTHS (or more) and your system setup. I learned that the "hard way" and had almost TOTAL data loss! Since then I have safeguards in place to prevent that from happening and only took less than an hour of my time to setup to be well covered. You really need a NAS (Networked Attached Storage drive) to safeguard yourself doing backups frequently - in my case every hour. Most people don't plan for "total failure" until it happens. I was there too once but not anymore. Windows 10 offers a "back-up" to a NAS to do every hour and backup your stuff but a total image of the disk will restore you in a pinch and then you can copy the backups from your NAS back to your system.
@brodriguez110002 жыл бұрын
Macrium does both backup, and recovery.
@DanielHernandez-on4mi3 жыл бұрын
Hello teacher, I just wanted to tell you that every day I learn more about you and for me you are a teacher
@lsudo3 жыл бұрын
Same here bro :D
@SkyrimExplorer3 жыл бұрын
@@elixier33 If someone believed these joke videos were true then... Well not all are born equal.
@TylerScottMillaway3 жыл бұрын
Grand Master Theo teaches us all.
@KingNikolai3 жыл бұрын
@MacCraker Well I'm sure he did the Windows tutorial because that is what the majority of people use, but I agree a Linux tutorial would've been good for him to include as well.
@djbapetistas55193 жыл бұрын
@@elixier33 lol u have 19 comments on this chanel, all crying how he's an idiot for ruining "people's" hardware (probbably talking bout urself), funny and so sad at the same time
@BWGPEI2 жыл бұрын
I go back to days of actually having Hiren's on a boot CD. Yet you put this all together so well that I get enthusiastic all over again. I had a Ubuntu boot USB in my pocket for serious social occasions, but having Hiren's as well is a real blessing. Thank You!
@casedistorted2 жыл бұрын
I remember having Hiren's on an actual boot DVD-ROM as well, man those were the days.
@anxiousearth6802 жыл бұрын
Must be some real hardcore social occassions if you need a Linux for them.
@theairacobra2 жыл бұрын
@@anxiousearth680 what's so bad about Linux bruh
@Jordan-zk2rf2 жыл бұрын
@@theairacobra tbh i cant think of many social situations that youd need an ubuntu boot usb
@NerdPorkArsonist2 жыл бұрын
I wanted to mention that Linux's filesystem drivers for Windows filesystems (NTFS included) can be more stable when a drive is failing. If a drive is not mounting in windows and is nearing death, I highly recommend trying to mount it in Linux like the Ubuntu live mentioned in the video. I have been able to recover data off a drive before it fully died using this quick tip. Just be careful to only copy what you need first.... If a drive is not mounting it could be on its last leg.
@klementineQt8 ай бұрын
Great tip because I've experienced Windows completely shitting the bed even when the dying drive isn't the one it's on. I've had SATA cables go bad on extra drives and cause the OS to break down functionally until they were replaced
@ThiagoHenriqueDS Жыл бұрын
There's a tool called ventoy which allows you to have multiples ISOs images on a single USB drive and on boot you can select the one you want to boot from.
@jorgeluna7914 Жыл бұрын
I came here to say the same thing. Ventoy is amazing. I used to use multiboot usb, but ventoy is better as you don't had to run the app to remove or add new images. You just drop the image in the partition for the isos.
@Ketsui.3 жыл бұрын
7:41 - Thio mentions HP and I instantly start having bloatware flashbacks
@PythonScratcher3 жыл бұрын
I am using hp
@PythonScratcher3 жыл бұрын
It comes with junk that I think there’s still a bit on my system
@suburbanite113 жыл бұрын
Seek help. That’s real trauma.
@mrbishi6343 жыл бұрын
Maybe before, but the hp laptop I bought last year doesn't have any. Actually, I found out that the recovery image was corrupted when I tried to to Reset this PC, and when I tried doing a clean install I had problems with drivers. hp support directed me to download a special 32 GB recovery drive image and after I used it to reinstall hp's recovery image on the SSD and restore from that, everything worked perfectly.
@eb9242 жыл бұрын
that pfp just fits with that comment
@JanetDax3 жыл бұрын
Having an image backup on an external drive has saved me several times.
@zgboy233 жыл бұрын
Do you use Aomei backupper maybe?
@JanetDax3 жыл бұрын
@@zgboy23 No, I periodically image the OS drive to an external drive using windows backup.
@Rubbabandman3 жыл бұрын
Edp moment
@petersack50743 жыл бұрын
good 4 u. Ask Leo preaches this, continuously....
@danoconnell18333 жыл бұрын
Yes! Same here. A full image backup on the free version of Macrium Reflect has saved my bacon twice.
@mario-bjornpeikert15723 жыл бұрын
@ThioJoe: Did you ever consider checking out tools like Ventoy? These tools are easy to use multibooters which can run multiple images off one USB-Drive. I found out most systems built after 2009 or so run quite well with it. Be aware: Some systems don't support USB booting if the drive partition exceeds 128 GB. If you can cope with this harsh limit, the Ventoy project would be my first choice for trying out. Especially the feature to drag and drop iso images to the USB drive and having them listed automatically works out really nice!
@Mauro_P2 жыл бұрын
Hi Mario. Is better use Ventoy than Rufus?
@mario-bjornpeikert15722 жыл бұрын
@@Mauro_P It depends on what you want: If you only want to boot one operating system from usb Ventoy is to much hassle to set up and Rufus is your tool of choice. If you want to be able to choose between more than one operating system to boot from the same USB-device, Ventoy is much better suited for you!
@casedistorted2 жыл бұрын
@@mario-bjornpeikert1572 Ventoy is too much of a hassle? I thought it was easier to set up than Rufus? All I did was run the .exe file and install it to a USB drive, then drag and drop the .iso files I need. Also this YT'r just created a video on how to use Ventoy for all these files he's talking about, yay!
@gabdriver22 жыл бұрын
Despite the hassle of having to copy each ISO to the correct folder in the USB drive, (Win8, Win10, Utilities, Linux, etc.), I currently prefer Easy2Boot instead of Ventoy, especially for booting utility ISOs (that must be copied to the "Utilities" folder) like Hiren's Boot. Now I use it to have not only Hiren's but also a Windows installation ISO and some Linux "live" ISOs to test.
@gblargg2 жыл бұрын
With Ventoy you can even boot off ISO files on your hard drive without having to copy them over to the USB stick (obviously not useful in a recovery context, but otherwise makes it easy to try various flavors of Linux live CDs, etc.)
@ggme46822 жыл бұрын
Wow. oh Wow. This is probably one of the most clear-cut, perfect educational videos I've ever seen. To the point. Perfect voice and clarity. NO SILLY MUSIC!!!. You are a master of this. I need 3 of these drives which I will very soon create. Thank you Sir! And I just subscribed.
@bantergaming63693 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing as im making a windows boot drive while im watching this video
@PoeLemic3 жыл бұрын
Everyone ... it's good to listen to ThioJoe and be prepared. ThioJoe ... Thanks for covering this. Yes, each update of Windows is bound to screw something up. Mine's screwed up right now. So, I'm planning to reinstall full when 21H1 comes out.
@darwisyaiman18653 жыл бұрын
That version some kind of risky to my pc and luckly my pc update without any problem
@Thisisnttravis2 жыл бұрын
Other ideas: have an offline Wikipedia flash drive
@kensmith56943 жыл бұрын
You missed out the Puppy Linux option. This one is different from other Linuxes because it will save all your work into a compressed file on the hard drive or on the USB. In the hard drive case, as far as Windows is concerned, it is just some binary file on your computer. This means you can have a bootable and usable system that doesn't forget everything each time you reboot. It is also very compact and extremely fast for most of what you need to do. Its design was focused on ease of use for being your "daily driver" OS but it does have gparted and the ability to access your NTFS partition if you tell it to do so.
@idkrossplay2 жыл бұрын
I actually used to carry a USB with puppy Linux everywhere just for this kind of stuff lol
@kensmith56942 жыл бұрын
@@idkrossplay These days I am using Mint as my daily driver. I was considering at one point making my own puppy and did quite a lot of work on it. Sadly too much software started to be 64 bit only for me to finish it. My partly done version would make an only netbook with a 600MHz clock work as a very usable machine.
@Kumakaree3 жыл бұрын
Seriously I love the direction this channel has taken You have my utmost respect Thio
@michaelmedlinger63993 жыл бұрын
That‘s a lot to take in! First step: Order some USB drives that are large enough to do all this. Most of mine are from the days when a USB drive with 500 MB was HUGE! Yes, I‘ve been around the block a few times! 😎
@kensmith56943 жыл бұрын
500MB Luxury! Monty Python Four Yorkshire Men skit reference Puppy Linux will fit on that BTW.
@nadtz3 жыл бұрын
I've been in the habit of grabbing a couple of the store branded microcenter drives whenever I'm there since they are pretty inexpensive. Always keep a few in my bag 'just in case' as well as a few boot drives at home and in the bag.
@joseislanio89102 жыл бұрын
Man, I also have a 512 Mb usb drive, use it mostly for a travel playlist on my car.
@armedrepublic2 жыл бұрын
I use Ventoy and load all of my boot fix tools along with every os iso to do installs as well. I have about 40 iso's on it. Way easier than keeping track of 4 drives
@rmhartman2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites is DSL -- Damn Small Linux. A lightweight linux that can boot from a flash drive or CD (not DVD, CD). Includes many of the basics, including (and especially) gparted for partitioning.
@centurion8446 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, might see if i can get it ti fit on floppy disk to use with ancient laptop which won't recognise had if it fits...
@NoEgg4u3 жыл бұрын
@11:26 "This is probably going to take a long time", meaning, creating the bootable USB drive. This is why: Since you will be using the USB flash drive for this single purpose, most people will probably get an inexpensive flash drive, which makes sense. But those inexpensive flash drives are inexpensive for a reason: "They are slow", especially when writing to them (when reading from them, they are usually not bad). So creating your bootable flash drive will run as slow as 5 MB per second, even if it is a USB 3.0 flash drive (but it will read at more the 50 MB per second, or faster). So, yes, save your money and get one of these inexpensive slow USB flash drives, because you will be writing a lot of data to it only once. When you need to boot from it, you should see acceptable speed. And make sure that you do a test boot. Do not assume that just because it appears that you successfully created the bootable USB drive that it will actually boot. Test it. Make sure it actually works. Also, it is easy to create the bootable USB flash drive. But your system might not allow you to boot from that USB flash drive, even though the flash drive is perfect in every way. Why? A lot of computers have a setting in the BIOS that locks out booting from external drives. So figure this out now, and do not wait until you actually need to boot from your flash drive. You need to know: -- Which keys to press, to get into your computer's BIOS (and once there, where to find the setting that will allow you to boot from your flash drive). -- Which keys to press, to get your computer to actually boot from the USB flash drive. @13:14 "LTS" does not stand for Long Term Service. It stands for Long Term Stable. Other versions might be available, which have frequent updates, and those updates have not been field tested for a lengthy period of time, which is why they are not deemed to be "Stable". They might be stable. But without the community using it for some time, it would be wrong to conclude that it is stable. Cheers!
@Jayson902102 жыл бұрын
LTS = Long Term Support I believe.
@danischannel2 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@sambhavkothari14083 жыл бұрын
One of the hidden gem of KZfaq.!! Totally underrated channel you deserve more millions. Thanks for the great content.
@jamesb12212223 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. Haven't used HBCD since it ran a cut down version of XP, but it was extremely useful even then. Can't wait to try ventoy so I can substitute my 10 usb drives for 1. Have a great day
@PurpleKnightmare3 жыл бұрын
I used Rufus for all the boot USB drives and it works just fine.
@BittenHand193 жыл бұрын
Wish I had the Hiren's stick this morning. Could have saved me from reformatting an entire system. I've made one now
@BM-iz5ii3 жыл бұрын
NVMe's are not considered as 'drives' in certain UEFI's, but rather as some kind of miscellaneous hardware. They even use different menus to access them, if for example you want to change their boot order. That is probably the reason why there is no option in the Recovery Driver that works for them.
@tonyhawk123 Жыл бұрын
I tried two SSDs in enclosures (with the ISOs inside Ventoy). The NVMe based drive wouldn't work at all. Some have got it working with their particular hardware so YMMV.
@FartBocks2 жыл бұрын
A better option that I have come across is Ventoy. It will allow you to build a multi boot thumb drive and all you have to do is drop your ISO files on and boot from whichever image you want.
@Wreighn Жыл бұрын
Ever heard of ventoy?
@samulimahkonen86043 жыл бұрын
Hei ThioJoe! Make a sequel video to this with Ventoy. 😎
@cindrmon3 жыл бұрын
he sure does need to
@jackkraken38883 жыл бұрын
Ventoy is basically the holy grail of bootable USB drives. I just updated mine and it has even more features.
@cindrmon3 жыл бұрын
@@jackkraken3888 ohh nice!
@kneonspace3 жыл бұрын
I personally would recommend easy to boot. Haven't tried ventoy jet.
@jackkraken38883 жыл бұрын
@@kneonspace You're in for a treat then. The way Ventoy works is really smart, once you format a USB drive with Ventoy can use it normally and just drop ISO images anywhere on the drive and Ventoy will find them when you boot with it. Furthermore you can update Ventoy version on any USB without having to wipe the drive! Now i have had some compatibility issues with it not working on some older PCs but most of the time it works very well and even supports UEFI.
@kakarroto0073 жыл бұрын
*Fun Fact:* Rufus can make all of these USB disks, even Windows. You might notice that if you visit the Microsoft Windows download page from a non-windows machine, (or just spoof your browser agent as a Linux/Macintosh with a plugin), they have they most current Windows 10 .iso _just sitting there_ that you can download: *for free.*
@arnabs20093 жыл бұрын
or use rufus to download the iso (yes you can do that) 😎
@kakarroto0073 жыл бұрын
@@arnabs2009 That's an epic tip. i actually just discovered that a couple weeks ago, making a fedora live usb. i clicked on download to see what would happen. to my pleasant surprise, it seemed Rufus has literally every build of Windows 10 available.
@kakarroto0073 жыл бұрын
@@arnabs2009 and windows 8 too, if i recall correctly.
@zervo Жыл бұрын
You can use Ventoy on a big USB drive and have all boots on it.
@MichaelClark-uw7ex3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the old days with UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD). Saved many bricked computers with that disc.
@Zahgurym3 жыл бұрын
Still keep a burn of UBCD and ntpasswd in my drawer "just in case".
@MichaelClark-uw7ex3 жыл бұрын
@@Zahgurym I haven't had to use it in a while but I still have multiple copies of it all over the place. In those days I never wanted to be far from a copy "just in case" Maybe that why I still have some DVD drives/burners laying around as well.
@daleryanaldover65453 жыл бұрын
Good to see the good 'ol Hiren boot cd at the very first tip, I remember fixing our neighbor's computer using my dad's hiren boot cd back in the day.
@hedgeearthridge68073 жыл бұрын
I keep a few around, though I just use Linux. 1. TAILS-OS. Even if you never use it or have no reason to use it, it's good to have around in case of SHTF 2. Kali Linux XFCE with Persistence set up. A great little portable operating system with some fun tools included, if you know what I mean. 3. Manjaro XFCE. In case I bork my systems and need a USB drive to recover it or even completely re-install (frequent data backups FTW) 4. I usually keep Linux Mint on a DVD for just in case. It was my first distro, and I still love it.
@GileadMaerlyn Жыл бұрын
You can have all of those on a single drive with Ventoy. (EDIT: Not the recovery drive I believe) And you can still use it like a regular USB drive and store files on it.
@Dark00Wolf793 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir. Hiren's BootCD was a revelation. And I just so happened to have an old 2 gig drive sitting around doing nothing. Perfect! :)
@thatoneguy3853 жыл бұрын
You can use VenToy to use multiple ISOs on one USB-Stick .
@RejectKing3 жыл бұрын
Sardu was my go-to until a few years ago; then Yumi. I'm going to have to look into Ventoy now.
@cheetahkin3 жыл бұрын
Just want to give massive gratitude for inspiring me to use up 4 spare 16GB USB 2.0 drives for creating emergency boot drives, anything can and will go wrong in IT and I really appreciate having a backup plan!
@brodriguez110002 жыл бұрын
Taking an old drive from one's last upgrade and install windows on that with all the drivers and everything. Pop that into the machine and the "other windows" drive connected for being worked upon whatever made it unbootable.
@veritassyfer11853 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%. I have al these and some others in a small zip-box I keep on me when I have to go on the field. Hiren CD really is clutch.
@aanchalmittal20633 жыл бұрын
Bro you're the best youtube tech channel I've ever seen
@AprilMayRain3 жыл бұрын
MediCat is what I use and it has SAVED me multiple times!
@lukemcgregor69693 жыл бұрын
Grabbing a copy of Hirens. Haven't used in years. Not since computers still came with a cd rom drive.
@johnmcnicholas16912 жыл бұрын
Awesome tips thank you Joe. I use these often and have noticed that when using these PE drives you may also have to disable secure boot in the BIOS
@carlallison95303 жыл бұрын
Thanks ThioJoe you are always giving out computer knowledge and I appreciate your giving and your heart to help which is what love is .
@rpst393 жыл бұрын
I had a ubuntu live usb and when my father's laptop hdd died so while waiting for the new one to arrive he was able to somewhat use the laptop with it.
@LunaBari3 жыл бұрын
Hdd? Do you mean something else?
@rpst393 жыл бұрын
@@LunaBari Nope, he wanted to go as cheap as possible so he went with an hdd instead of an ssd. And if he listened me and got at least an 7200rpm one instead of a 5400rpm one it might have been at least slightly less bad, but no he went with the cheapest possible. And he sure regretted buying an hdd.
@srpenguinbr3 жыл бұрын
If you intend to use only a web browser and basic included software, then there are several Linux distros that can easily serve this purpose however thumb drives are always prone to accidental removals and USB ports are usually very limited in number
@LunaBari3 жыл бұрын
@@rpst39 I might have been unaware of what an hdd is.
@rpst393 жыл бұрын
@@LunaBari HDD is hard disk drive. The old and slow ones that spin, and also cheaper than ssd's. SSD is solid state drive. It has no moving parts so it consumes less power and generally more reliable than a HDD. And they are also fast. They are more expensive than a HDD but in the last few years they got cheaper. People now generally use SSD's for storing the operating system because they are very fast.
@semco720573 жыл бұрын
That is valuable information and I have to make a backup thumb drive to put my Windows 10 system on just in case my computers crash on me.
@Modern-Nerds2 жыл бұрын
This brings me back to the days of the bootable ghost utility I used as a youngin.
@RiverCat9993 жыл бұрын
Great video. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this and your other videos. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
@NaitorStudios3 жыл бұрын
Medicat is a really nice alternative to Hiren's PC
@AntonioClaudioMichael2 жыл бұрын
Hiren Boot cd is One of my most used Cd's of all time for computer repair
@lesliedeana5142 Жыл бұрын
I would also recommend taping the thumb drives together (or rubber banding) and then store them inside the pc case.!
@MEANASSJAMSTER3 жыл бұрын
Oahhhh YESSS ...good old HIRENS ...ended up falling asleep drunk while watching it MANY TIMES!!!
@cat_craft3 жыл бұрын
Have a good sleep
@rwashi3 жыл бұрын
I used WindowsFX a Linux distro and I managed to recuperate most of the fles on the HDD.
@experimental0000 Жыл бұрын
Step 1: Download and install Ventoy on a 64GB+ thumb drive (Ventoy is a multiboot system so you can just use one thumb drive instead of making several) Step 2: Download and then drag and drop the ISO for Hirens onto the new Ventoy thumb drive Step 3: Repeat step 2 with Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Debian, and Puppy Linuxes so that you can boot one of those (depending on hardware specs) to get into a usable desktop to recover files and have the machine 'run' while you're researching issues and fixes for what's going on with the computer.
@Walhor Жыл бұрын
why so much capacity? How much does each iso file take?
@myleshudson78563 жыл бұрын
Windows To Go is always a must have. Use Rufus to apply to a drive. Have it installed on a crucial 128gb ssd just in case...
@lianakriebel3 жыл бұрын
Actually, before I had bootable USB drives, I had a system image. The time I broke my laptop and had to send it in for repair, I discovered Macrium Reflect and created my first backup system image. I do probably need to get big external hard drive to store some more system backups...
@ColdSphinX3 жыл бұрын
As someone without an OEM PC I'd recomend an USB drive with Snappy Driver Installer Origin.
@glenwaldrop81663 жыл бұрын
Gandalf's PE bootable drives are very useful. I still keep a copy of Window XPE for certain fixes.
@d3vlabs2 жыл бұрын
they became commercial
@JohnPaulBuce2 жыл бұрын
i love this, i bought a 16gb flash drive thats been sitting here doing nothing, this could be very useful
@NLSasuga2 жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of using VHD's for my OS's. VHD's are normally used by Hyper-V virtual machines but you can boot your physical machine from VHD as well. What I do is create one OS image that is nicely cleaned up and then create two differencing disks. One I use for gaming, the other is for all my other software. I install everything I need on these two images, tweak them even further then create another differencing disk of both images and use those to boot from. If something messes up, I simply recreate the differencing disk from the other boot option and all is well again. It's not recommended for 'production environments' but I don't consider my home computer a production environment. ^_^ It uses a lot of space on your SSD's but it's worth it, IMO. I turn off system restore points, since I never really trust an OS installation once it became messed up anyway. Once every while, I update the main image an recreate the other images, compete with all software updates. This keeps my OS fast and stable. And you can easily test out some software and revert to a clean image if you decide not to use it. It seems like a hassle to get it to work this way, but it's not that bad. I wish Microsoft would extend their support for this method of installing Windows.
@lucadoesthings3 жыл бұрын
This is amazing, thank you for the cool & helpful content
@jeancorriveau86863 жыл бұрын
Use free Ventoy usb stick. Format just once, and add as many iso files as the stick can store. No need for multiple usb sticks.
@sjoervanderploeg43402 жыл бұрын
Instead of using Ventoy like others recommend, you can also partition a USB stick and slap grub on it to multiboot different ISO's/kernels/tools/Windows. You can even pack different versions of windows into it!
@mjayjock13 жыл бұрын
Another great video. I really do not know how you are continually able to come up with such great content!
@jimlascola3 жыл бұрын
I use Hirens Practically every day in the field !!!
@callmexxjacobxx2 жыл бұрын
I have them in my tool kit
@joef70112 жыл бұрын
I regret for missing this video. My main hard disc failed recently.
@shadowflyerFX3 жыл бұрын
You should make a video where you boot on Windows PE and delete the system 32 and windows folder and see what happens. Thought that would be cool. :)
@CloudTheWolf3 жыл бұрын
Rather having multiple USB Drives, you can just use Ventoy and drop the all ISO files onto the drive then you have all the tools in one place :)
@Vishvajeetsinh3 жыл бұрын
0:02 Oscar Winning Acting 🤧🤯🤯
@ercanyilmaz8108 Жыл бұрын
Hiren's boot disk is very handy. Especially the Sysinternals utilities and the password reset utilities are very handy. Some laptops have also internal testing tools which you can access by the boot menu.
@velociraptor683 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Very helpful. Can't believe I went 5 years on this machine without a recovery drive. Doh!
@BetaMaster23 жыл бұрын
a better version of hbcd is falconfour's ultimate boot cd, it's mostly focused on changes to mini xp but it has some more features and it's pretty useful
@ThioJoe3 жыл бұрын
Good to know
@avejst3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always 👍 Love that you go all the way, with 4 options Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
@CR3W1SH03S2 жыл бұрын
Never play chess with a pigeon. The pigeon just knocks all of the pieces over, shits all over the board and then struts around like it won.
@AskIveSolar3 жыл бұрын
Good to know hirens is still out there
@GamingCookster2 жыл бұрын
One of my community college classes told us how to use almost all of these. Best class ever. Thanks for the refresher video :)
@johnwesley2562 жыл бұрын
I think you should've added Snappy Driver approx. 20 gigs, it has pretty much all the drivers for almost everything. I would've also mentioned Gandalf win 10 PE as a alternative to Hirens. I think Gandalf is about 5 gigs.
@joseijosei4 ай бұрын
This video is great, and everyone can use these, but the thing is you can fix pretty much any issue with number one. It may take a little bit of extra work, but you can literally delete any virus, modify partitions and recover any boot files.
@realryleu4 ай бұрын
i would recommend using ONE usb drive and adding all of these tools with ventoy
@dm7473 жыл бұрын
This is the best video for computers I have seen in long time. Thank you! Your presentation is brilliant. Your screen shots are the best I have ever seen on KZfaq. I could actually read the screen information without any trouble the way you zoomed in. There is nothing worse than following along in a video where you can not read the screen display and see what is being typed in. Why can’t others do the same as you? Your explanation of this subject and what and why things work and don’t work was also very helpful. Forgive me for going on but this video was spot on in all areas that I had to say...T H A N K Y O U !
@gabrielcoelho16233 жыл бұрын
Just a thing to add to the video: you can't access your Windows files from your Ubuntu Live USB if your Windows drive is protected by Win10's BitLocker
@Trekeyus3 жыл бұрын
sudo apt install dislocker
@androbourne Жыл бұрын
@15:40 Another reason for wiping that way is for windows licensing issues. If you perform a factory reset and it was using a MOLP key or retail key it doesnt matter, it will be activated. If you perform a fresh installation of Windows 10 there is no guarantee it will allow Windows to activate. Meaning now you have to deal with activation issues. Thats the main reason us techies use it for.
@raviexthegod4 ай бұрын
When it comes to data recovery and system repair, I would say that Kali Linux is your best option for a linux distribution to do the job. It's packed with a ton of tools professionals use and it's fairly easy to use. it's like Windows PE. you might just want a GUI you can use but need more freedom than windows will ever allot.
@HR-wd6cw2 жыл бұрын
The two biggest ones I can see that people SHOULD have is a Windows installation USB key and a WinPE or bootable environment that lets you access your Windows install and data. I also keep a bootable/live CD of some LInux distros as well (on CD).
@id1043354093 жыл бұрын
No! The worst experience ever is when Windows says "You Need to Format the Disk before You Can Use It" on your porn drive.
@richardkm53553 жыл бұрын
Lol. You're sick
@ronaldmango70643 жыл бұрын
What the hell.
@ronaldmango70643 жыл бұрын
You meant hard drive not p... drive.
@JR-ef3by3 жыл бұрын
No when the drive says please insert a disk
@theblackcatvieweraccount54023 жыл бұрын
No, when windows "fixes" your USB that has ALL of your personal files (passwords, small business that's taking you years to develop, games you cannot get anymore, etc. ) on it and you have no backup, during boot by formating it.
@skwest2 жыл бұрын
By the way, thanks for going to the trouble of cataloging/indexing the various locations and tasks you present. This is precisely the kind of addition that this type of instructional video benefits from the most.
@vinylattic69013 ай бұрын
I have the windows Installation tool set up as a small partition on my main drive, so when windows fails it auto boots to recovery, quite practical
@moweME3 жыл бұрын
Better create just one drive with Ventoy!
@verified_gamer6273 жыл бұрын
bonus tip: use ventoy so you only need 1 usb
@davestechstuff82222 жыл бұрын
I love how at the beginning he talks about your (windows) computer not booting properly, and yet the stock footage shows a guy yelling at a mac.
@gunz7663 Жыл бұрын
i used Medicat USB when i had a job with computers. absolutely amazing tool.
@Robin-ym1jy3 жыл бұрын
I'd always have a gparted live drive, way faster than booting Ubuntu and installing gparted.
@nuc50423 жыл бұрын
Mint ISO has GParted preinstalled
@thezmaze3 жыл бұрын
@@nuc5042 Official Ubuntu ISOs have gparted preinstalled too
@kensmith56943 жыл бұрын
@@nuc5042 Yes, and Mint is a darn good OS to switch to when you get tired of the Windows BS. BTW: I am typing this on Puppy Linux, not Mint so I am not biased.
@SwankyDirectorYT3 жыл бұрын
Actually, you only need 3 usb. This is because: 1. Stores windows pe/unbuntu 2. Stores compressed files 3. Usb drive to boot into individual os's.
@word20 Жыл бұрын
Do you remember Lavabit mail? They were forced to give away private information by US government, but the creator chose to shut down Lavabit mail. It was a similar thing that happened with TrueCrypt encryption tool, who gave away the code to another company. iPhone's Manager also had issues with the government about encryption. On NordVPN, Express and Surfshark, you have split tunneling and PIA website says they do not have it. The three VPN I mentioned have strong encryption and most important is outside US. ExpressVPN moved to British Virgin Islands. NordVPN has double VPN and Tor over VPN and a separate DNS server you can use. I have used NordVPN several years and in their blog they explain about security
@craigericanderson2 ай бұрын
This is now 3 years old. It would be good to have an updated version.