advid.net's Journal: Software Survival Kit (slashback)

Summary of this thread:
What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit?
Plus personal updates

Systems

• Win98SE
• Your prefered Linux Distro
• WinNT4
• WinXP

Bootable media

• TOMSRTBT
• Win98SE Boot Disks
• Ghost bootable floppies set
• Knoppix
• QNX Demo, both modem & lan Disks
• DOS 6.22 disks
• any Linux rescue disk/CD

System Tools

• Partition Magic
• Norton Ghost
• The new FDisk for large partitions
• LapLink, FastLynx http://www.sewelld.com/FastLynx.asp FastLynx has the advantage that it can transfer files between XP and say DOS or Linux, over Serial, Parallel, or USB
• Delpart.exe
• McAfee Virus Scan, command line version
• Antivirus. http://www.free-av.com, F-Prot http://f-prot.com
• Norton Utilities
• Hard disk checking utilities (from Maxtor, Seagate, etc) PowerMax http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm , SeaDiag, HDDiag, WD Lifeguard
• Memtest86, http://www.memtest86.com/
• DosDiag - for checking your hardware; http://www.5star-shareware.com/Utilities/Diagnosti cs/bcm-diagnostics.html
• Favorite tools from Sysinternal/Winternals: FileMon,RegMon,PsTools, ... ERD, NTFS DOS Pro
• BPR, disk & partition recovery, http://www.data-recovery-software.com/
• Offline NT Password & Reg Editor, http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
• F.I.R.E. (Forensic Incident Response Environment) Linux + security tools, http://fire.dmzs.com/?section=faq
• ? SpinRite http://grc.com/spinrite.htm
• ? Lavasoft Adaware

User Tools

• Undelete. A good and free version can be found at http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/
• ZIP, RAR, ACE. Bzip2 and gzip for DOS or Win32
• UltraEdit
• ? XTGold 2.0 or 2.5 - runs on DOS
• ? XTree Ztree www.ztree.com

Misc Apps & Files

• Acrobat Reader, Quick Time, Flash/ShockWave
• Nero Burning Rom
• misc drivers for personal hardware and common nomad devices
• MS Service Packs (OS/Office)
• Standalone Web Browser ( OffByOne, others ... )
• PowerDVD, PaintShopPro
• Microsofts free Word and Excel viewers

HardWare related to OS installation

• Blank Diskettes
• Screwdrivers
• Spare screws
• Spare IDE cable
• Spare jumpers
• Spare IDE drive or external drive
• RJ45 cross over CAT-5 cable
• Laplink Cable
• RS 232 cross over serial cable

Links

• List of rescue disks: http://plug.twuug.org/articles/rescuedisk.html