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[ UPDATE: New link] Knoppix is one of the better tools for rescuing data from sick machines. It’s a full-blown live Linux distribution with a strong, user-friendly GUI that will allow you to easily mount a drive and then copy the data (which you will locate in an easy-to-use file manager) to an external source. Of course, Knoppix comes with the full arsenal of Linux commands, which place just about everything you need at your fingertips.

2: Trinity Rescue Kit

Trinity Rescue Kit might leave you wondering, «Why isn’t this tool being developed faster and on a larger scale? Although TRK is rather slow to develop, what it offers is just short of amazing. Place it on a USB drive, boot your virus-laden machine, and scan the mounted drives with clamav, antivir, bitdefender, and more. This tool is all command line, so you might have to bone up on your commands to really make use of it.

3: Avira AntiVir

Avira AntiVir is a command-line antivirus tool that is fast, robust, and dependable. There is a GUI tool, but installing it is almost more trouble than it’s worth. (It requires Java.) Installing AntiVir on Linux isn’t the easiest of tasks, but it’s certainly no kernel compilation.

4: GParted Live

GParted Live is a live Linux distribution that allows you to manipulate partitions on a drive. It supports numerous file systems and lets you can resize, create, and delete, partitions. You can run GParted Live from a CD or a USB drive, so it’s very portable.

5: SystemRescueCd

SystemRescueCd is another live Linux rescue CD that offers numerous tools to handle numerous tasks, including partition manipulation, file recovery, hard disk testing, ftp, and disk formatting. As with most live Linux distributions, you can place SystemRescueCd on either or CD or USB drive, and it offers an easy-to-use GUI and plenty of tools.

6: Ubuntu Rescue Remix

Ubuntu Rescue Remix is quickly becoming one of my favorite data recovery tools. Like all good live Linux CD tools, it includes an outstanding GUI (it is Ubuntu after all) that can help you handle tasks other tools can’t handle. You can recover and rescue Mac files/filesystems, recover data from nonstandard external drives, recover deleted files, and more. The one thing URR is missing is antivirus tools. But, since this is a Linux rescue disc, once installed, you can simply add the tools you need to your USB live CD.

7: F-Secure Rescue CD

F-Secure Rescue CD is based on Knoppix and allows you to check the integrity of your installed applications. It also allows advanced data repair and recovery, as well as recovery from that ever-dreaded malware!

8: Ddrescue

Ddrescue is a Linux tool designed to copy data from one file block device to another. This tool will aid you in rescuing data when your drive is suffering from read errors. Unlike many of the tools on this list, Ddrescue is not a live distribution but a tool you will use on a running Linux machine. So to rescue data, you will have to attach that troubled disk to the working Linux machine.

9: Safecopy

Safecopy is similar to ddrescue, allowing you to copy files from a disk suffering from I/O errors. It also includes a tool that allows you to read data from CDs in raw mode, as well as issue device resets and simulate bad media for testing and benchmarking.

10: Linux rescue mode

This is the only entry on the list that isn’t a downloadable tool. Linux rescue mode is a mode booted with the help of a Linux boot CD, allowing you to repair a broken system. From rescue mode, you can recover a root password, repair or reinstall the boot loader, and more. When you boot into rescue mode, it will typically mount your installed system into /mnt/sysimage, where you can take care of any business necessary.

More rescue tools?

These 10 Linux tools can help you recover, rescue, and repair a Linux, Windows, or Mac machine. Of course, plenty more tools are out there. Have you come across a Linux tool that can help you repair or recover a damaged or sick drive? If so, share it with your fellow TechRepublic members.

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System Rescue Homepage

Description: SystemRescue (formerly known as SystemRescueCd) is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext4, xfs, btrfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS.

System and Networking Guides

In addition to the Quick Start Guide and SystemRescue documentation here are other guides:

Project documentation

This project comes with good documentation. Here are the most important pages:

For the impatient:

Chapters about basic usage:

Chapters about advanced usage:

System tools included

• GNU Parted: creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more).
• GParted: GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library.
• FSArchiver: flexible archiver that can be used as both system and data recovery software
• ddrescue : Attempts to make a copy of a block device that has hardware errors, optionally filling corresponding bad spots in input with user defined pattern in the copy.
• File systems tools (for Linux and Windows filesystems): format, resize, and debug an existing partition of a hard disk
• Ntfs3g: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions.
• Test-disk : tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext3/ext4 and many others
• Memtest: to test the memory of your computer (first thing to test when you have a crash or unexpected problems)
• Rsync: very-efficient and reliable program that can be used for remote backups.
• Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, …): to backup your data across the network

Browse the short system tools page for more details about the most important software included.

Browse the detailed package list for a full list of the packages.

It is possible to make custom versions of the system. For example, you can add your own scripts, make an automatic restoration of the system. It is also possible to create custom versions of SystemRescue.

You can use SystemRescue to backup data from an unbootable Windows computer, if you want to backup the data stored on a Windows computer that cannot boot any more.

It is very easy to install SystemRescue on a USB stick. That is very useful in case you cannot boot from the CD/DVD drive. You just have to copy several files to the stick and run syslinux. The install process can be done from Linux or Windows. Follow instructions from the manual for more details.

More information about this project

SystemRescue sources can be found on GitLab and these are licensed under the GPLv3 license.

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Introduction

There are several complications or problems that can occur while running Ubuntu and Windows in either a dual-boot or Wubi environment.

This guide assumes that you either have Ubuntu on a LiveCD or installed on the hard-drive.

Boot Repair

In some situation, you might loose access to one or several of your operating systems (Windows, Ubuntu. ) because of a buggy update, a bootloader problem, a broken filesystem, or after installing a new OS (e.g. installing Windows breaks Linux bootloader).

Boot-Repair is a graphical tool that will repair these problems, generally by reinstalling GRUB, which then restores access to the operating systems you had installed before the issue.

Boot-Repair also has advanced options for reinstalling GRUB, adding kernel options, restoring a generic MBR, or repair a broken filesystem.

Boot-Repair can be installed on Ubuntu, either on installed-session or live-session.

Wubi

«Missing hal.dll»

This is a frequent error seen on Wubi installations. It leaves Windows unable to boot and causes it to complain about a missing file,

which is the Hardware Abstraction Layer for Windows.

1. Boot up an Ubuntu LiveCD
2. On the top taskbar click on the «Places» menu
3. Select your Windows partition (it will be shown by its partition size, and may also have a label such as «OS»)
4. Navigate to windows/system32/dllcache
5. Copy hal.dll from there to windows/system32/
6. Reboot.

Dual-Boot

Resizing Vista or Win7 Partitions

Windows 7 and Vista sometimes fail to boot after its partitions are resized outside of Windows. This is due to Windows using a very simplistic boot-loader. A regular file-system check is normal and to be expected on the first boot-up to Windows 7 or Vista because GParted programs Windows to do that by putting the ‘dirty’ flag in its file-system metadata.

To recover from this boot problem, you can follow these instructions.

Reinstalling Windows

1. Follow these instructions.
2. Reboot the machine, it should boot straight into Windows with no option for Ubuntu
3. To complete this task you might have to delete the remaining Ubuntu partitions from the hard drive in a LiveCD session, because Windows won’t be able to see them.

Links

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