Currently I carry around a Strelec one, my guess it's quite current and boots to a W10 OS. Before that my EDC was the W8.x one.

It has all the tools I need for a first response.

Used to be and still am, a big fan of Hiren's boot CD.

I deal mostly with corrupted Windows rather than infections.

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Microsoft DaRT
also
Active@ Data Studio
EASEUS Partition Master

maybe I'm misunderstanding this thread, but I just use the "create a recovery drive" feature in Win 10, using a Kington USB drive, toss the thing in a drawer, and I feel like I'm good to go.

what am I missing?

YUMI
You can put a bunch of disk/data/antiviral utilities on it, Windows install .isos, linux install/boot .isos, etc.
THere are plenty of similar multi-boot managers, but YUMI is stupid simple & worked 100% for me.

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Originally posted by radioman:
maybe I'm misunderstanding this thread, but I just use the "create a recovery drive" feature in Win 10, using a Kington USB drive, toss the thing in a drawer, and I feel like I'm good to go.

what am I missing?

There are a lot of boot disks compilations around that also include a compilation of tools and utilities to adress a bundle of software and hardware issues.

The PC equivalent of a Swiss

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