Easy Computer Repair Kit.

[General Bordinko]

This is an outline of a kit that i have put together over the years that is very light and powerful. I carry it in my car everywhere

1.) Small leather cd case

2.) Set of small screwdrivers

3.) Hiren's Boot CD 7 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html)
This cd is one of the best boot cd's i've found in awhile. There are over a hundred tools from booting to mini windows 98, password recovery to hard drive repair and format.

DOWNLOAD (http://www24.megaupload.com/files/ab7b32c499f845c90aea680b3c5d75ca/Hiren's.BootCD.7.3.zip)

4.) Knoppix STD (http://www.knoppix-std.org/)
This linux boot CD is great for getting into a computer that is having hardware errors. WARNING: This tool is VERY powerful and can be damaging if used incorrectly.

5.) 1gb Thumb drive.
Much more trustworthy on an unstable system than the original harddrive

6.) #2 Pencil
I know a #2 Pencil right, there are no SAT's in computers. Well the best thing that you can do with a Pencil is the eraser. The eraser can be used to safely clean the gold contacts on all cards.


This should get you on your feet for fixing computers.

If anyone has any questions please ask. It's what I do for a living.

[CoMmEnT]

3.) Hiren's boot cd 7 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html)
This cd is one of the best boot cd's i've found in awhile. There are over a hundred tools from booting to mini windows 98, password recovery to hard drive repair and format.



I don't see a link to grab the iso.

[General Bordinko]

Added the Download for you.

[CoMmEnT]

Added the Download for you.


<3 2 u.

[Ch33zy]

Personally, I'd bring a can of air or somthing as well. When you help people who havent cracked thier case in 3, 4 or even 5 years... Well...

[Lord Kelvin]

Yes, that tends to help. For similar purposes, a light brush may help as well to clean out the areas that might break if too much pressure is applied. Also, a vacuum cleaner (the kind that comes with a hose, not the upright ones you push around) helps too if you don't want all that dust just settling into the room that you're fixing the comp in.

[General Bordinko]

I was going to put a can of air in there but i wanted to go with bare minimum.

I do very much reccommend compressed air and a small brush (they usually come in combo at staples)

[Moe_Rahn]

Personally, I'd bring a can of air or somthing as well. When you help people who havent cracked thier case in 3, 4 or even 5 years... Well...
This summer, I broke down my parents' old Pentium 2, which they've had since 1997. It has been opened exactly twice in the interim, with the last time probably being around 2000. When I opened the case, it was like cracking open the Arc of the Covenant or something, clumps of dust literally flew out when I lifted the case shell off. It was impossible to do anything for a few minutes, because I was hacking and coughing just trying to clean out enough of the dust that I could work.

[Bone_Vulture]

I'm currently trying to lengthen my comp's lifespan a bit, so I gave the innards so compressed air. Blowing through the ventilation grill of the power supply revealed that its innards are completely covered in fine, fluffy dust.

[Mr. Fiend]

I tend to gather old computers at garage sales and what not, and since my basement tends to flood, I have to work on them all in my room. Things can become very interesting health-wise.

[nojmaster]

What about screwdrivers and such? not all cases are easy-open contraptions.

[Lord Kelvin]

He listed a set of small screwdrivers. Most cases will require regular-sized screwdrivers to crack open the case, but you might also need smaller ones to reach some of the smaller spaces.

[General Bordinko]

What about screwdrivers and such? not all cases are easy-open contraptions.

#2 on the list ya hoser :P

[waktasz]

I wonder if that Hiren's bootable CD will work from a thumb drive

edit: that download link sux... half a kb/s :(

[General Bordinko]

It should work from a thumb drive I havent tested it yet but i've had computers boot from thumbs before.

Yeah I know the download speed sucks but that's the only place that has it. I havent refound the original link I was given

[FaKToR]

WARNING: This tool is VERY powerful and can be damaging if used incorrectly.
How so?

[StandingCow]

You forgot one tool... for when nothing else works and you cant take it anymore.. the hammer.

[Lord Kelvin]

How so?
There's all sorts of shit on it that can be used for not-so-innocent purposes. For example, I don't know how to use most of the tools on it, but it comes with John the Ripper, which is basically a hacking program, and, if you have two other programs handy, you can use it, combined with a thumb drive, to crack Windows XP passwords.

[FaKToR]

Isn't that for cracking SAM files?

[General Bordinko]

Isn't that for cracking SAM files?

Yep. That's why I said it would be 'too powerful' if used incorrectly. I dont want a useful tool (bootable linux kernal) to be used for illegal h4x0r stuff.

There's all sorts of shit on it that can be used for not-so-innocent purposes. For example, I don't know how to use most of the tools on it, but it comes with John the Ripper, which is basically a hacking program, and, if you have two other programs handy, you can use it, combined with a thumb drive, to crack Windows XP passwords.

Yeah it could take anywhere from seven hours to seven years to crack