Free, Linux-based rescue CD for Windows machines

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Published on 2010-04-15T18:28:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 18:33 UTC
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Hi,

Too often, I'm being called to help a friend who screwed a Windows machine by some creative methods. Th usual remedy is backing up the hard drive contents and reinstalling. Right now, this is done by removing the defected hard drive to my machine. I figured out that using a rescue disk running some version of Linux might ease the process.

I'm looking for:

NTFS access
Partition tools
Large variety of drivers (Network, Hard drives, etc.)

GUI and some rescue wizards a great plus. Any ideas? Adam

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