Great software find...Active@Boot Disk.

Active Boot Disk is primarily a compilation of several tools, a few of which I had already tested and found to be extremely good for the advanced user so I am going to post some of the information here.

Active@ Boot Disk is a bootable CD that gives you a lightweight Windows 7 (WinPE 3.0) environment with disk image, data recovery, password resetting, data erasure and network access tools.  The tools available are;
•Active@ Disk Image *** Works very well when I have to replace a drive.

     Imaged-based data backup and restoration tool
•Active@ File Recovery
     Deleted data recovery software
•Active@ Partition Recovery
     Lost partition recovery software
•Active@ Hex Editor
     Tool for editing disk in a binary format
•Active@ Password Changer
     Windows password resetting tool
•Active@ KillDisk *** Excellent for those times when I need to zero-fill a drive
     Secure data erasure and disk wiping software
•PC Disk Partition Manager *** Saved my backside when I accidentally deleted a partition.
     Add, edit, delete, format and manage the partitions in your computer
•Active@ CD/DVD Data Burner
     CD/DVD burning software
•Network operations utilities

1. Map Network Drive
2. Remote Desktop Connection
3. Web browser
4. FTP Client
5. Telnet Client
6. Network Configuration Utility

 •Other Utilities *** perhaps of lesser importance but nice to have.

•  File Explorer
•  Task Manager
•  On-Fly Drivers Loader
•  Display Configuration Utility
•  Notepad
•  Command Prompt shell

 All-in-all I find the utilities to be excellent and well worth the cost to have them in your toolkit.

There are also free versions available of several of these tools but each is restricted in some way and I personally recommend that you use the full versions instead.

The Details can all be found here.

http://www.livecd.com/