System Rescue Boot Discs based on Windows PEA boot disc is very useful because it can be used to perform troubleshooting tasks on an unbootable computer. Most of the time software that belongs in the category of data recovery, antivirus and hard drive backuprestore provides the option to create a boot disc which is sometimes known as rescue disc. Although these software can run from Windows, they are actually most efficient when run offline from a bootable disc. An example scenario is youve accidentally deleted an important file. Macrium Reflect Server Serial Number' title='Macrium Reflect Server Serial Number' />Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive for Hirens Boot CD diagnostic and recovery toolset ERD Commander replacement. Recover data, fix a damaged PC etc. Repair the files on a USB Flash drive or any drive. Also useful for damaged SD cards. Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. Write MASH and list your categories Life partner, number of kids, job, salary, car, and where you live. List four or five options for each category, with your friend. Macrium-Reflect_5.png' alt='Macrium Reflect Server Serial Number' title='Macrium Reflect Server Serial Number' />You can of course install a free data recovery software such as Recuva and attempt to recover the deleted file. However installing it on the computer will face a potential risk of the installed program overwriting the deleted file. To increase the chance of recovering the file, immediately shut down the computer, boot it up with a bootable Win. PE disc and run Recuva from the Windows PE environment. A boot disc is normally based on either Linux or Windows PE. Linux is commonly being used because the operating system and most third party tools are free, the generated boot disc is more compact in size and can run on slower computers. As for Windows PE, it has the best hardware support and most users would be familiar with it such as the hard drive naming convention C in Windows compared to Linux devsda. However, Windows PE may have a higher system requirement because the latest Windows PE 5. MB just for the base and adding more drivers, packages, or apps will obviously require more memory. Here we have a list of free boot discs based on Windows PE that come with a collection of useful tools which we think that every computer technician or even a normal user should have to hand. Paragon Rescue Kit 1. Free Edition. Paragon Software is well known for their hard drive management software. Other than shareware, one of the freeware applications they offer is the Paragon Rescue Kit 1. It comes with a bunch of useful tools such as backuprestore to virtual disk, postmortem backuprestore, boot corrector to fix MBRboot. BCDEFI boot parameters, undelete partition to restore partition that has been accidentally deleted, and file transfer. Unfortunately the registry editor and password cleaner to reset the local Windows user account is only available in Linux but not in Windows PE. Paragon Rescue Kit 1. Windows Automated Installation Kit nor Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit to build the recovery media if youre creating from a Windows 7 or newer operating system. The builder will simply use the WIM image of the current operating system. If you travel by airplane often, you know the hassle of waiting in lines. Thats why TSA PreCheck is a lifesaver. Weve already reported on whether paying extra. However do take note that you will need to install WAIK or ADK if you want the builder to create the ISO image file. During the building process, you have the option to enable the advanced mode that allows to add storage and network device drivers, network configuration such as detecting the network interface automatically, and mounting a network share automatically after boot. You will also need to provide the product key and serial number which can be obtained for free at their official website. Download Paragon Rescue Kit 1. Free Edition. 2. Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home Edition. Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home Edition is free for non commercial use only. It is able to create a Windows PE boot disc containing a few modules to help in recovering a crashed Windows by repairing boot errors, recover files after accidental deletion, cloning and creating disk image, recovering Windows serial number and resetting user account password. Building a Windows PE with Lazesoft is as easy as clicking on the Burn CDUSB Disk button. You can choose to build a specific Win. PE version ranging from Windows 7 to 8. Options button. The builder will automatically download the necessary components to build the Win. PE if your computer does not have the files. The Windows File Manager button found on the Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home Edition disc is not really a fully featured file manager like Windows Explorer where you have two tree view panes to easily manage files. You can however launch a third party file manager from the Windows Recovery button, go to the Repair. Tools tab and click on Lazesoft File Manager. Download Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home Edition. AOMEI PE Builder. AOMEI Technology, the company that is well known for their PC backup software called Backupper, released a freeware program called PE Builder late last year to help users easily build a Win. PE based bootable media with just a few clicks. AOMEI PE Builder is able to build a Windows PE by using the Windows Recovery Environment that is found on newer version of the Windows operating system such as 7 and 8, so there is no need to download and install WAIK or ADK. The Windows PE built by AOMEI PE Builder looks more like a normal Windows desktop because it comes with Windows desktop and Explorer which is not found in the Windows PE built by Paragon Rescue Kit or Lazesoft Recovery Suite. Other than that, AOMEI Backupper, AOMEI Partition Assistant and Windows Recovery Environment is included by default. You can also embed 3rd party portable tools such as 7 Zip, Everything, Irfan. View, Notepad, Q Dir, Recuva, Sumatra. PDF, File. Zilla, PENetwork, QTWeb, BOOTICE, NTPWEdit and OSFMount to the Windows PE by ticking the checkboxes. Custom drivers and files can also be added. Do take note that the current version 1. Windows PE and this is caused by some compatibility issues with the recent Windows updates released by Microsoft. If you urgently need to build a working Windows PE using AOMEI PE Builder, you can do it from a Windows 7 computer with the 2 Windows updates KB3. KB3. 04. 59. 99 uninstalled. This workaround only works in Windows 7 but not in Windows 8. AOMEI is aware of this issue and is currently working on a newer version to fix this problem. Download AOMEI PE Builder. Gandalfs Windows 8. PEIf youre looking for a pre built Windows 8. PE, look no further and just use Gandalfs Windows 8. PE because it is packed with useful programs. It has a desktop, explorer, start menu replacement with Start. Is. Back, compression tools, image viewer, hard drive tools, video player, Open. Office, remote access tools Ammyy Admin, Remote Desktop, Team. Viewer, anti malware such as Clam. Win and Malware. Bytes, and many more Gandalfs Windows 8. PE is 1. 8. GB in size and in an ISO image format. You can burn it to a DVD or install it to a USB flash drive using Rufus. Both X8. 6 and X6. PE are available to download. All the tools embedded to Gandalfs Windows 8. PE are either free or trial versions which means its free from pirated programs. Download Gandalfs Windows 8. PE5. Win. Builder 2. Win. Builder 2. 01. Win. Builder 0. 82 which has not been updated since 2. The old Win. Builder 0. Win. Builder 2. 01. This new version of Win. Builder runs on Java which means it can also run on operating system other than Windows such as Linux and Mac OSX. The old Win. Builder 0. Windows PE building process. The new Win. Builder is even easier by typing a single command AUTO into the window, and the whole process of building a Windows PE bootable disc is fully automated including the downloading of the Windows ISO image file. Currently there are 1. Windows PE automatically through Win. Builder 2. 01. 5 by typing the command install appname in the program. The plugins available to install can be listed by typing install list in the program window. For example, to install Recuva, simply type install recuva in the window. Purchase and install Thinkpad E5. SSDSince your 2. 5 bay is already occupied, Id suggest you buy an NVME PCIe M. SSD and make it your boot drive, and use your 2. Install an M. 2 drive, format or initialize it so that your OS recognizes its presence for example, in Windowss Computer Management. Then use hard drive cloning software like Acronis True Image or Macrium Reflect Free to clone your hard drives data to the new M. SSD. At that point, the M. SSD which youll have already installed in your system will contain an exact duplicate of all the data on your hard drive. At that point, you can boot off your M. SSD and do a reformat of your hard drive, to use the hard drive for some other purpose like backups. You might need to go into your BIOS and change the default boot order to make sure that the NVME M. PCIe SSD is higher on the boot list than the 2. If youre looking for something inexpensive, the best value NVME PCIe M. SSDs are the Intel 6. My. Digital. SSD BPX. The My. Digital. SSD BPX also boasts an absolutely insane endurance rating for example, the 4. GB verson advertises 1. TBW, meaning that the 4. GB drive can write 1,4. You could overwrite the entire drive with brand new data every day, writing 4. GB of new data every day, and the drive would still last more than 5 years before dying. Thats simply insane. On the other hand, Toms Hardware said they had some battery life issues when the My. Digital. SSD BPX was installed in a Lenovo laptop. Tiny Toon Adventures Sega. So you might want to stick with the Intel 6. If youve got more money to spend, then the Samsung 9. EVO and 9. 60 Pro probably have the best performance. The OCZ RD4. But since NVME PCIe M. Theres no such thing yet as a low quality NVME PCIe M. So check prices and buy whatevers cheapest, if you want. But if you want performance, go with Samsung or OCZ.