XDA Developers on MSN

I keep a bootable USB with 10 free tools on it, and it has fixed every PC problem I have had this year

A tiny multi boot USB setup that holds dozens of ISOs for live tools and installers, ready to revive any PC.
How-To Geek on MSN

How to set up a perfect rescue USB that can save any PC

Saving a PC can go from very hard to extremely easy once you set this up.
CRN

How To: Boot A Dead PC With Nothing But A Thumb Drive

But with the advent of the tiny, lightweight, and portable USB key drive, system builders now have a new tool. I believe the USB key drive could alter—even usurp—our old rescue and ...
informationweek

Creating A Windows XP Recovery Console CD Image

Sooner or later, every XP user faces the moment when he or she needs to access a system in a low-level maintenance mode to fix some kind of problem with the operating system itself. Perhaps the system ...