Friday, December 12, 2025

Broken PC Toolkit

I am no longer as knowledgeable about computer issues as when I was in college, but I thought those readers that are techies might find this useful.  In "My 'break glass' USB drive has everything to rescue a broken PC" the author describes how he put together a "kit" of software on a flashdrive that allows him to troubleshoot and fix PCs that have suffered catastrophic failures due to hardware failures or malware infections. It starts with loading Ubuntu and Ventoy ("an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files") onto a flash drive (the author recommends one with at least 64GB of space). He also lists and discusses some other software he uses for diagnostics, recovery, and restoring data. 

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