Five great apps to handle emergency recoveries
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Introduction
Introduction
ntNOTE: If you’d prefer to view this information as a blog post, check out this entry in our Five Apps blog.
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ntI have put together this list of five tools that have a place in the perfect emergency toolkit. Each tool serves a different purpose. Together, they make up a kit that I think will make your life a heck of a lot easier.
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KNOPPIX
KNOPPIX
ntKNOPPIX lets you recover data from an unbootable drive, troubleshoot various aspects of a non-booting Windows drive, remove corrupt files, and much more. Many people don’t realize just how valuable it is to have a full-blown, bootable Linux distribution with more than 2 GB of software ready and waiting.
BlueScreenView
BlueScreenView
ntThere is one catch here. I am a fan of the CCleaner tool. By default, CCleaner is set up to remove all those memory dump files. So if you use CCleaner, be sure you uncheck the option to delete those files. Otherwise, a tool like BlueScreenView will be of no use.
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
ntRoadkil’s Unstoppable Copier does one thing and it does it well: It copies data from broken drives. And it’s good at it. But UC isn’t just for getting data off broken drives. You can also use it as a daily backup (using the Batch Mode function).
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
ntUC works by attempting to recover any readable piece of a file and then tries to put the pieces together. It’s pretty amazing how well it works.
