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5 Top System Rescue Utilities

Everyone knows that sometimes a window based system can play up, not boot etc, so to help with that there are 5 top system rescue utilities to help .

here is the old faithful that everyone knows and has saved many a person.

Hiren’s BootCD

Hiren’s BootCD is a collection of utilities that help us diagnosis the problem or to recover the data from a non-bootable computer. The CD contact various tool like partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools etc. HBCD is one of the most popular recovery disk, but there were a lot of licensing issues, since they included some paid software in this package earlier. But as of now they include the Mini Windows XP which is a commercial software and few evaluation software as well. You can download it from

next is Trinity Rescue Kit 3.4
Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. Since version 3.4 it has an easy to use scrollable text menu that allows anyone who masters a keyboard and some English to perform maintenance and repair on a computer, ranging from password resetting over disk cleanup to virus scanning

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Another Favorite is Ultimate Boot CD

Ultimate Boot CD or UBCD is a well known recovery CD repairing, diagnosing a hardware related problem. UBCD is based on Bart’s Preinstalled Environment. It’s a lightweight 32–bit edition of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Windows PE. Like other recovery disk UBCD also includes a variety of utilities that help us troubleshoot Windows. This includes a couple of utilities for BIOS, some CPU benchmarking application like CPU Stress or CPU burn, some utilities for Hard drive like Boot Part, MBR Tool. It also includes Offline NT Password & Registry Editor & Parted Magic. UBCD also includes a great collection of diagnostic utilities like MemTest86+. Like other rescue disks, UBCD also includes a few free antivirus products to scan for possible infection. Ultimate Boot CD is my personal favorite and I used to refer this to a lot of users who were in need of a recuse disk. Get more information

one of my favs is Knoppix Rescue CD
Knoppix is Live CD based on Debian Linux. Knoppix is one of the oldest Linux distributions and was one of the first Linux Live CD distributions. There are two editions of Knoppix, one is a CD version and the other one is DVD edition which is also called MAXI. Knoppix includes LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), K Desktop Environment 3, Internet access tools and utilities, a Firefox based browser, an e-mail client, Network analysis tools & administrator tools, data rescue utilities, Terminal server and a lot of other software. But I will say that Knoppix is not meant for an average user, who don’t have much experience in Linux, but it is meant for a power user or an IT Professional.

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Another favorite System Rescue CD

System Rescue CD is also a Linux Live CD designed to recover and repair a Windows PC. Unlike Knoppix, System Rescue CD is only designed for rescuing the system from a serious crash, so they have only included such utilities in this package like creating and editing hard disk partitions. SRCD contains recovery tools such as SFDisk, FSArchiver, Partimage, TestDisk, PhotoRec, IFTP. It also has system tools such as Gparted, GNU Parted, Ultra lightweight Editors, Midnight Commander & Network admin tools like NSLookUp, NMap, NetCat, etc. The CD contains antivirus software, as well. If you are planning to write any scripts, it also includes Phyton & Perl scripting language. In short SystemRescueCd contain some powerful utilities that help you recover your PC. Just remember to read their tutorials on how to use it. Download it from

Well these are some of the most popular System Rescue Disks used by professionals. I know there are a lot many Rescue CDs out there, but these are 5 of the favorites used

Note: A word of caution. If you don't know what you are doing and are not prepared to re-do you operating system (completely) then it is best to get help. It is very easy with any of the above tools to do irreversible damage, prompting the need to re-do your system.