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Knoppix – The "original" Debian-based live CD. MX Linux – Live based on Debian stable. Tails – An Amnesic OS based on anonymity and Tor. Slax – (formerly based on Slackware) modular and very easy to remaster. Webconverger – Kiosk software that boots live in order to turn PC into temporary Web kiosk.
BartPE ( Bart's Preinstalled Environment) is a discontinued tool that customizes Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 into a lightweight environment, similar to Windows Preinstallation Environment, which could be run from a Live CD or Live USB drive. A BartPE system image is created using PE Builder, a freeware program created by Bart Lagerweij. [1]
A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run ( boot) an operating system or utility program. [ 1] The computer must have a built-in program which will load and execute a program from a boot disk meeting certain standards. While almost all modern computers can boot from a hard drive containing the ...
Rufus was originally designed [4] as a modern open source replacement for the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool for Windows, [5] which was primarily used to create DOS bootable USB flash drives. The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [6] ), was released on December 04, 2011, with originally ...
Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations, and servers, or troubleshooting an operating system while it is offline. It is intended to replace MS-DOS boot disks and can be booted via USB flash drive, PXE, iPXE, [ 1] CD, DVD, or hard ...
Ghost (disk utility) GHOST (an acronym for general hardware-oriented system transfer[ 4] ), now called Symantec ™ GHOST Solution Suite ( GSS) [ 5] for enterprise, is a disk cloning and backup tool originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research. The technology was bought in 1998 by Symantec .
The Ultimate Boot CD contains freeware and open-source diagnostic tools from a variety of sources. Many of these tools were originally designed to boot from a floppy disk drive. The Ultimate Boot CD made it possible to run them on a PC without a floppy drive. [5] UBCD can also run from USB for computers without an optical drive.
A live USB is a portable USB -attached external data storage device containing a full operating system that can be booted from. The term is reminiscent of USB flash drives but may encompass an external hard disk drive or solid-state drive, though they may be referred to as "live HDD" and "live SSD" respectively.