How To Create Bootable TRK USB Flash Drive?


One of the most famous tools of TRK is probably the winpass shell script that simplifies the execution of chntpw utility to reset or recover the Windows account password. Best of all, TRK is a tiny Linux distribution (less fat) and it is good to boot up from a 128MB USB flash drive. If you still keep one of such smaller thumbdrive, now is just nice to make use of it. Steps to create bootable USB drive for Trinity Rescue Kit 1) Download the latest release of TRK from trinityhome.org and verify MD5 checksum of the downloaded ISO file against the one published in download page. 2) Burn the ISO file to CD/DVD-ROM, with any optical disc authoring software, such as Nero, PowerISO, UltraISO, or the built-in Windows Disk Image Burner feature in Windows 7. 3) Boots up from the TRK CD/DVD-ROM to the TRK (Linux) command prompt. Plug in the USB flash drive and execute dmesg command for the attached USB flash drive device file. As shown in this screenshot, my Apacer 128MB USB flash drive is attached as /dev/sdb in Linux: 4) Now, execute trk2usb command to create the TRK bootable USB flash drive (where -d specify the USB mass storage device file; -s to specify size in MB):
trk2usb -d /dev/sdb -s 128

Read the WARNING message carefully and understand the consequence before entering “ok” to proceed. I have NOT tried a gigabyte thumbdrive with multiple logical drives setup by partition table (wonder will trk2usb destroy the original partitions, even if explicitly specify the logical drive in -d option together with -n).

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