Behold my Windows Master Key!

This petit little 16GB thumbdrive holds 3 essential things that makes it invaluable during system recovery or maintainence of a Windows 7 machine.

First of all, it contains a WinPE image that along with the usual system maintainence tools, I also included PhotoRec so it can be used in a situation to recover deleted files or disk partitions.

Second, it IS a Windows 7 install thumbdrive so it can be used to resetup a KO'ed system.

And finally, in cases of extreme emergencies. There's a VHD containing a Windows 7 OS that can be boot into and used. The performance of this cheap KingMax drive is surprisingly good! It's not necessarily faster than the SanDisk Cruzer I used in my previous VHD on USB adventures, but seems to be able to perform much better though.