Recently my cousin bought a new laptop – Dell Inspiron 14r with Windows 7 Home Basic x64.I went to her house to install Ubuntu on her laptop.Unfortunately installing Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 14r was a big challenge.The grub2 menu and the wired/wireless drivers caused a lot of problems.It took almost 3 hours to install and get Ubuntu running smoothly.

Diskgenius is an advanced disk recovery tool that can restore deleted partition, rebuild mbr, rebuild partition table, recover files and restore formatted partition etc. It also can backup files by partition or disk clone, and it also enables you to backup partition table for unexpected incident.

Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive.

WinUtilities Pro is an award winning collection of tools to optimize and speedup your system performance. Softpedia is giving away free license for WinUtilities Pro.

Grub4dos it is a versatile bootloader capable of dual/multi-booting DOS, Windows, Linux and other operating systems. It can be used to select which operating system to load when multiple operating systems are available.Grub4Dos can be easily installed to your Hard Disk Using a tool called Bootice.