We all have to admit that password is something that everyone forgets once in a while and the main reason why this occurs is because we have a habit of creating more and more complex and secure passwords that are totally impossible to remember. So, in this article we will take some advanced extra precautions by creating a password reset disk for your Windows computers so that even if you forget the password in future, you will have some way to reset it without having severe panic attacks.

Finally got the chance to give Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview a try, to get it loaded onto a new machine I opted to create a Bootable Windows USB drive as shared ahead. While the Windows 7 Bootable Disk Maker Tool worked fine for Windows 8 Bootable USB, it failed with Windows 10 TP ISO image.

I used the excellent portable, bootable usb disk maker utility Rufus to get the job done, just point the utility to Windows 10 TP ISO as shown below and click the Start button.

File-format incompatibility between Apple Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating-systems is something every user faces utilizing both operating-systems. One such incompatibility is the disk-image format used by both operating-systems, while Apple Mac OS uses .CDR format Microsoft Windows utilizes the international disk-imaging standard .ISO, so you would need something to convert .CDR to .ISO file-format and vice-versa to use them under rival operating-systems. Luckily, the only difference between two is the file-extension, and all one needs to do is to change the .ISO/.CDR extension to make them work interchangeably without any real file-format conversion. We can also use this fact to make perfectly bootable USB disks from .CDR files from Windows and Linux using existing tools allowing cloning of .ISO format to USB.

While we covered bootable logon password bypassing utility KON-BOOT as a security nightmare, there could be genuine uses of the utility in cases where such circumvention is needed for legal uses like forgotten password, corporate usage (login to company computer after an employee leaves or is not available), parental administration or law agencies.

KON-BOOT is now updated to version 2.1, with added support for Windows 8 (non EFI support) logon password bypass with an optional sticky keys feature which allows user to spawn an admin privileged console before logging into the computer. The utility now also have an Mac OS X flavor which allows login into MAC computers with a new “root” account having username and password as "kon-boot".

Demonstration videos of both Windows and Mac OS X admin logging using KON-BOOT with root privileges after the jump.

System rescue disks come very handy in disastrous system recovery operations, based on latest Microsoft WinPE 3.0 bootable technology Wondershare Live Boot 2012 feature more than 40 rescue tools to rapidly rescue you from any imaginable PC crash disaster with a bootable CD/USB drive. Armed with tools to fix computer bootup problems, rescue data, backup and restore file/system, clone and deep wipe disk, manage disk, and over 40+ such rescue utility functions in total. The user-friendly interface simplifies the repair procedures into only a few clicks for both savvy users and newbees. The utility costs $59.95 to buy regularly but a 100% genuine and legal free activation serial number is available for grabs during next 4 days.

Why settle for a single computer rescue bootable disk when we can have multiple tools on a single medium, thanks to free utilities like SARDU (Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility) - creating bootable rescue disk with all sorts of rescue tools becomes a matter of minutes.

SARDU enables usesr to prepare bootable CD/DVD or USB disks including a comprehensive collection of antivirus rescue disk's, utilities, Linux Live distros, and other popular Windows PE and recovery disks with ease.

Rescue Tools Multi Boot CD/DVD/USB Menu

Numerous tools and tips have been posted on this blog to create bootable disk drivers and here we have yet another simple utility to get the job done easily on Windows.

"Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool" does what it says by allowing users to create their USB disk-drives bootable using the straight-forward, minimalistic, self-explanatory user-interface.

Preparing bootable USB drives has always been a not so easy task requiring a combination of tricks, hacks and tools, thanks to freeware utility WinToFlash this won't be the case any longer as it allows users to create bootable USB disk drives having Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 installation or any other BartPE compatible environment from CD/DVD to USB in a fast and automated way.

Apart from preparing bootable Windows installation and BartPE USB disk drivers WinToFlash also supports making of bootable MS-DOS disks.

Creating and using a bootable USB rescue disk is a much faster, easier and smarter approach than a bootable cd/dvd, earlier we had shared a trick which allowed users to create a bootable USB disk with Kaspersky Rescue ISO, now Kaspersky has listened to the need and released an official bootable USB disk maker for Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

EASEUS is a well-known brand specializing in easy to use data-recovery and backup software development, few days ago they did an exclusive promo with our blog giving away unlimited free licenses of Partition Table Doctor utility to our readers - now we have another promotional giveaway of unlimited free licenses of EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard V 5.0.1 worth $69.95 for our blog readers.

The newest version EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard V 5.0.1 supports advanced data recovery from Hard-disks, RAID's, USB drives, memory cards etc. allowing users to get back their deleted files or lost data due to partition loss or damage done because of software crash, virus infection, unexpected shutdown or any other unknown reasons.