Spotlight: SystemRescueCD

By Jack Wallen October 7, 2009, 4:56 AM PDT

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SystemRescueCD contains a number of outstanding tools that can help you to troubleshoot and repair Linux desktops and servers, and Windows machines.

For a full review of SystemRescueCD, check out the TechRepublic Product Spotlight Blog.

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GParted

The Gparted tool is one of the better partition tools on SystemRescueCD.

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Test Disk

The Test Disk application allows you to recover lost partitions.

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CD/DVD Burner

The CD/DVD burner makes recovering data simple once you’ve accessed and found the data in question.

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Partimage

Another partition editor available with SystemRescueCD u2013 this tool is Partimage.

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