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Analysts View: Antivirus Rescue CDs

Posted on September 11, 2010

I examine nine AV rescue CDs designed to remove particularly nasty malware to determine which is the best disc, and if the free ones are good enough.

via PCMag.com

Filed under: Rescue, Reviews 1 Comment

Daily 5: Five uses for an Ubuntu LiveCD

Posted on July 19, 2010

OMG! Ubuntu! has an article covering additional uses for the Ubuntu LiveCD besides installation.

MultiBootISOs Boots Multiple Operating Systems from a USB Drive

Posted on July 12, 2010

Can't decide whether you should commit your spare thumb drive to Windows recovery, Ubuntu, or some other live-booting OS? Run MultiBootISOs on your USB drive, and you won't have to choose—you'll just choose between them at start-up.

via Lifehacker

Manage partitions and disks with GParted-Clonezilla live CD

Posted on July 24, 2007

Linux.com has instructions for backing up partitions using GParted-Clonezilla.

Backing up partitions and hard disks sounds like work -- until youve tried Clonezilla. With Clonezilla you can clone and duplicate partitions of various formats and disks of various sizes locally or over the network. Even more impressive is the fact that you can do all this without typing complicated commands. And since Clonezilla is available as part of the GParted-Clonezilla live CD, you dont even have to install it.

CentOS 5 i386 Live CD

Posted on July 10, 2007

The CentOS 5 LiveCD has been released.

That means that the purposes of this CD are to see if CentOS will boot/work on your hardware, to test some of the features of CentOS as a workstation, and to use as a Rescue CD. It does not contain all the features of the 7 CD CentOS 5 Distribution on one CD :

Recover Data From RAID 1 LVM Partitions With Knoppix Linux LiveCD

Posted on April 22, 2007

HowtoForge walks through recovering data from a RAID 1 setup using Knoppix.

Filed under: How To, Knoppix, Rescue 1 Comment

LH Top 10: Free Computer System Recovery Tools

Posted on April 13, 2007

The top four of Lifehacker's top 10 free computer system recovery tools are LiveCDs.

Why linux live cd are important? How useful is it?

Posted on April 11, 2007

Linux by Examples uses the SLAX LiveCD to perform some data recovery and repair on a couple broken Windows machines.

Filed under: News, Rescue, SLAX No Comments

Two New Mandriva Live Discs, and much more news

Posted on January 22, 2007

DistroWatch Weekly is packed full of LiveCD news today. First up is news of a gaming LiveDVD by Mandriva, along with a LiveCD showcasing a unique 3D desktop called Metisse. Below that is news of updates to Live versions of PCLinuxOS, gNewSense, Fedora Unity, BOSS GNU/Linux, and a new rescue LiveCD by the T2 project.

Give System Woes the Boot

Posted on December 19, 2006

A hybrid ABC News/PC Magazine article explains what the Ultimate Boot CD and UBCD4Win are, and their uses.

Tip of the Trade: Recovery Is Possible

Posted on December 12, 2006

ServerWatch brings us an introduction to the recovery LiveCD/DVD/USB/CF/PXE/* which goes by Recovery Is Possible or RIPLinuX.

Recovery is Possible (RIP) sounds like a 12-step program, or some kind of self-help regime. RIP is (yet another) specialized Linux rescue distribution. RIP comes in a number of bootable images: CD/DVD, USB key, Compact Flash, PXE netboot, and even a tiny FreeBSD-based image. You can get a version with X windows, or one without.

Tip of the Trade: TestDisk and PhotoRec

Posted on December 11, 2006

Server Watch suggests running a couple of popular data recover tools from a LiveCD or LiveUSB device to rescue data.

My personal favorite way to run TestDisk or PhotoRec is from a bootable Linux CD. They are included on Knoppix, Trinity Rescue Kit and RIPLinux. Virtually all filesystems and partition types are supported as well.

Filed under: How To, Knoppix, Rescue No Comments

BartPE helps get files back when computer crashes

Posted on November 21, 2006

The ChronicleHerald.ca has an article on creating a BartPE LiveCD for system recovery.

Filed under: BartPE, How To, Rescue No Comments

Ultimate Boot CD

Posted on August 11, 2006

Associated Content reviews the Ultimate Boot CD.

Geek to Live: Rescue files with a boot CD

Posted on August 10, 2006

Lifehacker walks us through rescuing a Windows system using Knoppix.

Few moments in computing are as heartbreaking as when you turn on your trusty PC only to receive that bone-chilling message: "Boot sector corrupt. Config.sys missing. Disk cannot be read."

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Drive failure? Yagotta try Knoppix first

Posted on June 19, 2006

A ZDNet.com blog has a long but entertaining story of Windows file recovery using Knoppix.

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Knoppix to the rescue

Posted on June 2, 2006

The Age has an introduction to Knoppix.

Gentoo-based system rescue liveCD revs up

Posted on May 3, 2006

DesktopLinux.com is reporting the updates in the latest SystemRescueCd release.

MultiLinux Live DVD

Posted on April 3, 2006

DistroWatch Weekly reports on one of the first (the first?) release of a premade LiveDVD which includes multiple Linux LiveCDs. Included on the 4+ GB ISO download is Knoppix, Ubuntu Dapper, Livux, PCLinuxOS, SimplyMEPIS, SystemRescueCD, Puppy Linux, Elive, and Damn Small Linux.

Recovering grub boot loader password

Posted on February 22, 2006

nixCraft tells us how to recover a grub boot loader password using Knoppix.

Filed under: How To, Rescue 2 Comments