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System rescue

by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Oct 17, 2012 10:37

Tools for system recovery. These tools are, mostly, Live CDs.

Clonezilla

http://clonezilla.org/

Backup and restore partitions and hard drives. Free software alternative to Norton Ghost and Drive Image.

GParted Live CD

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Tool for hard disk partitioning. Supports resizing partitions.

SystemRescueCD

http://www.sysresccd.org/

Bootable system recovery CD based on GNU / Linux. Contains a multitude of tools, including Parted.

Ultimate Boot CD

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Bootable system restoration CD. Enable to recover a hard disk with bad sectors (low level format).

Super Grub Disk

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

Recover a damaged MBR. Must-have tool to boot a GNU/Linux system after installing Windows.

Windows Defender Offline (beta)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline

Scan a computer with Microsoft Windows Defender without booting the operating system.

Kaspersky WindowsUnlocker

http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208285003

Recover a Windows computer totally trashed by a virus.