wozzzzza Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 have an old laptop running windows 7 that my mate cant start up and wants to get his stuff off of it, what is the best bootable cd to use for this? hirens still or something else?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uffbros Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Mine is Sergei Strelec's WinPE https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/sergei_strelecs_winpe.html I assume since this is freeware that I didn't need the sharecode way of posting the link?? Shadowx, infinia, neofita and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyg Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Hirens is still a thing! Last update was 2 years ago but it still helps me fix loads of systems. First hit on google and whack it on a usb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neofita Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 (edited) +1 for Strelec (although I don't see any future developments) https://sergeistrelec.ru/ hiren's is severely outdated IMHO regards Edited April 20, 2021 by neofita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBP Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uffbros Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 @GBP...That version you reference to is 10 months old...there are many newer since then...my link is the latest.....Jan 5,2021 GBP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalf44 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I know that it is a huge download. But I am a fan of Medicat USB. You can read about it here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/medicat-usb-a-multiboot-linux-usb-for-pc-repair.361577/ neofita, hbk4ever and Bl4ckCyb3rEnigm4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozzzzza Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 trying this sergei one, when i put it in this older laptop it comesup as UEFI Part, remove this media and press any key to continue. what does that mean?? then it just boots into old windows, well tries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbk4ever Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 8 minutes ago, wozzzzza said: trying this sergei one, when i put it in this older laptop it comesup as UEFI Part, remove this media and press any key to continue. what does that mean?? then it just boots into old windows, well tries. Did you create the USB drive with Rufus? Your system may not recognize uefi drives. Try formatting it with rufus and choosing your partition scheme as "MBR" instead of "GPT". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozzzzza Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 is this an ok virus?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbk4ever Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 That is remote desktop software. It should be fine. I know anti virus software labels it as potentially unsafe. d5aqoep 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozzzzza Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 12 hours ago, hbk4ever said: Did you create the USB drive with Rufus? Your system may not recognize uefi drives. Try formatting it with rufus and choosing your partition scheme as "MBR" instead of "GPT". yes rufus, got it working using MBR, just cant startup windows on sergei, using dos tools, hdd has a tonne of bad sectors. that maybe the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbk4ever Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 You should be able to startup Sergei since it's running solely off the USB drive. Bad sectors in the hdd wouldn't effect that. Instead of windows based, have you tried dos based utilities on the USB drive yet? Sent from my SM-G970U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozzzzza Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 7 minutes ago, hbk4ever said: You should be able to startup Sergei since it's running solely off the USB drive. Bad sectors in the hdd wouldn't effect that. Instead of windows based, have you tried dos based utilities on the USB drive yet? Sent from my SM-G970U using Tapatalk thats what i would have thought, but no it doesnt. the dos based programs work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozzzzza Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 well i fixed it, after several scans and repairs of sectors on the hdd it now actually boots into its own windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d5aqoep Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) On 4/21/2021 at 5:52 PM, wozzzzza said: is this an ok virus?? I would advise you to straight away delete that filth called AmmyyAdmin. Their site admin routinely embeds Cerber ransomware virus in their executable. Once all your files have been encrypted, it asks you to send $1000 worth bitcoin to the address on screen. I have been infected by that exe once and I refuse to use it even if someone pays me to do so. https://blogs.quickheal.com/alert-ransomware-is-being-spread-through-the-ammyy-admin-website/ https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/07/11/ammyy-admin-compromised-malware-world-cup-cover/ https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/answer/How-did-Ammyy-Admin-software-get-repeatedly-abused-by-malware https://appriver.com/blog/ammyy-admin-rat-leveraged-in-massive-malware-campaign I call out Sergei for including this junk company product in his bootable CD. This is the main reason for me not using Sergei Strelec's bootable CD. I just create my own. I think EaseUS Partition Manager gives an option to create a basic WinPE based bootable USB. You can even try this one out http://www.aomeitech.com/pe-builder.html Edited April 29, 2021 by d5aqoep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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