Windows 10: all-in-one USB boot drive

Hi. I've been in IT support for 15 years and I always hated the amount of different cd/dvd/usb I had to carry with myself, so I was thinking why not to combine them into one drive and have everything on it -
1. windows installations with drivers and programs (UEFI and BIOS )
2. live windows os (xp, 7, 10) with programs
3. live linux
4. dos utilites
Over the years the project has grown but with testing I decided to limit it to 32gb since even some newer machines can not boot from usb drive larger than 32gb ( most HP laptops have that problem).

download links google drive :
z01: _win10x86x64en2004-20200617.7z.001 - Google Drive
z02: _win10x86x64en2004-20200617.7z.002 - Google Drive

Install procedure :
unpack with 7z use usbit to burn the image on at least 32gb usb drive and that should be it

WINDOWS INSTALLATION
It has x86 and x64 versions of en-us windows 10 2004. Installations are controled by several scripts. Autounatended file in root and setupcomplete in windows/setup/scripts folder, oobe script for themes. In fully automated version you just have to select the partitions in installation and after that scripts will do the rest. They will install .net3.5, vc++ 2005-2019, office, windows updates and other programs. SAD3 script will install drivers.

LIVE WINDOWS
DLC1 x86, DLC1 x64, and my own live os based on win10x64 2004.
DLC1 os are older live os but they are small and reliable. BIOS boot has added options to boot gandalf, strelec, medicat, kyhi, hirens, boboms live os but they are not on the drive but can be added by user.
skydec10 - I only used it for few hours - so not tested - everything looked fine but could have bugs
programs are loaded from old hirens menu which is now updated with new programs and newer version of them. I chose this way of implementation because it allow me to load the programs from all of the live oses and from the installed os as well.
AV programs: ClamWin Malwarebytes SuperAntiSpyware and RogueKiller are updated to 20200615 definitions
Hardware info tools are also mostly uptodate like cpu-z, gup-z, speccy, hwinfo.
Some new categories are VGA category with bios flashers and bios editing tools, testing/hwbot category with hwbot benchmarks

DOS utilities have most of the old hirens, dlc1 and ubcd programs linked with the option to link strelec programs if you add them to the drive.

I've been using it for several years and it have proven to be a lot better solution to having 10 cd/dvd/usb each for one thing. It is created in a way to be easy to update once you create the drive, just copy newer versions of files to ther location. No need to change scripts or update wim-s.
I'll try to explain it into details, just keep in mind this is very big and I'll need time to write everything down.
I'm not sure weather people will like or accept this concept of aio-boot-drive but I think it's worth to share it.

:)

 

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