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Field Manual on USB memory stick alternative

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by hubertp

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Hello:

I missed the boat on getting one of the Field Manual on USB Memory Stick offers from the bookstore. It sounds like such a good idea that I would like to replicate it on a memory device of my own.

Did any of you reading this happen to get one of the Field Manuals? If so, can you discuss what software was on it?

If the software on that device is not directly available what other utilities would any of you put on a plug-in memory device that would provide the same functions as what was on that device?

For that matter, if you were to put together your own portable package or device for troubleshooting, what software would you put on it?

This may need to take into account that some of the machines I might want to use a USB device on may not be able to be set up to boot from a USB port.

Thank you in advance.

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by firebugsbm

I just joined this forum today so I'm not sure about the field manual. But in response to if one was to create their own I do have a few ideas. I'm currently working on one for myself that is going to include drive setup and diagnostic utilities for hdds, memory tester, and anything else that comes up in the future. One other program I am looking at, because DOS has issues with the ntfs file system, is Winternals ntfsdos, so that I can mount an ntfs drive and use my dos commands on it instead of having problems like on a windows 98 disk and trying to read an ntfs drive. I like fdisk better than the partition/format setup used on the xp installation disk.

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