System Rescue CD

Bootable Live DVD to repair and administer your PC after a crash or booting issues!
System Rescue Cd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
Please Note: This is NOT a Windows boot disc, and does not use any MS Windows technology or software to perform its tasks. IT WILL however, allow you to repair a broken MS Windows system, or at the very least, recover lost data from one.
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 software such as system tools and basic 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, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish.
The kernel supports all important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).
Some Included Tools

• GParted: creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems.
• Partimage: popular opensource disk image software which works at the disk block level
• ddrescue: Attempts to make a copy of a partition or floppy/Hard Disk/CD/DVD that has hardware errors, optionally filling corresponding bad spots in input with user defined pattern in the copy
• Ntfs3g: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions
• Memtest+: to test the memory of your computer (first thing to test when you have a crash or unexpected problems)

Network tools (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, ...): to backup your data across the network
System RescueCd has many features, including:

• GNU Parted and GParted to partition disks and re-size partitions, including FAT32 and NTFS
• fdisk to edit the disk partition table
• PartImage, disk imaging software which copies only used sectors
• TestDisk to recover lost partition and PhotoRec to recover lost data
• smartmontools a S.M.A.R.T. suite for HDD health reporting and data loss prevention
• ddrescue to extract recoverable data from physically damaged HDD and listing damaged sectors
• FSArchiver a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file-system to a compressed archive file
• A CD and DVD burner: dvd+rw-tools
• Two bootloaders: GRUB and SYSLINUX
• Web browsers: Firefox, Midori, ELinks
• File manager: emelFM2
• Archiving and unarchiving abilities
• File system tools: file system create, delete, resize, move
• Support for many file systems, including full NTFS read/write access (via NTFS-3G) as well as FAT32 and Mac OS HFS
• Support for Intel x86 and PowerPC systems, including Macs
• Ability to create a boot disk for operating systems
• Support for Windows registry editing and password changing from Linux

Note that DVD's come on unlabeled disks.