Without a doubt, Hiren's BootCD was the community favorite, bringing in the most nominees in the call for contenders thread and over 59% of the overall vote in the poll.

Hiren’s Boot CD While I generally prefer separate boot drives dedicated to a task, other people like the all-encompassing toolkit approach, and that’s what you get with Hiren’s BootCD.

To create a bootable thumb drive with Hiren’s Boot CD files, you’ll need a drive with a capacity of at least 1GB, a copy of the Grub4DOS Installer (also available at HirensBootCD.org), the ...

1. Bootable Hiren’s BootCD partition. Hiren’s BootCD is a great tool that creates a bootable environment for you to work with outside of the constraints of the operating system.

I've got a Hirens bootable USB stick which is FAT32 and boots fine on an asus board as well as an HP workstation I have at work but I cant make it work on this gigabyte board.