Brain Storm

Ever think of having a portable OS with very useful tools to do various restoration activities if your system went down? Do you like to buid such portable rescue disk by yourself? Then you should try UNetbootin.

It allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for various linux distro. It runs on Windows, linux and Mac as well.

UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities, including:

• A partition manager like Parted Magic
• A system repair, backup and recovery tool like SystemRescueCD
• A boot utility like Super Grub Disk
• Antivirus tools like Dr.Web Antivirus, F-Secure Rescue CD, and Kaspersky Rescue Disk
• Network analysis and penetration testing tool like Backtrack
• Utility to recover Windows passwords – Ophcrack
• Utility to reset Windows passwords and edit the registry – NTPasswd
• Gujin, a graphical bootloader that can also be used to boot various operating systems and media
• FreeDOS, which can run BIOS flash and other legacy DOS utilities

Those who want to create their own rescue disk should try it once.