If the operating system is damaged and you cannot recover valuable data, SystemRescueCd is a free utility that can repair it only by booting the CDROM or an USB drive. SystemRescueCd practically is composed by a Linux system containing useful tools for hard disk partitions and files management, networking related software and more.

Among a large variety of tools included in SystemRescueCD, you will find GNU Parted, Partimage, FSArchiver, TestDisk, Samba, Midnight Commander, Clam-AntiVirus, lynx, Python and other. In the version 1.1.4, the standard kernels were updated to Linux-2.6.27.10, which provides support for Reiser4 file system.

The bootable CD-ROM could be customized in order to ensure an automatic execution of the system repairing process. The x86 edition is compatible with the 32-bit as well as 64-bit processors (also a SPARC distribution can be downloaded for Sun based systems).

SystemRescueCD is distributed as an ISO image that must be burned on a CD-ROM with an adequate software.

SystemRescueCD covers a wide range of file system types, such as NTFS, ext2, ext3, ISO9660 and Reiser4. The boot options are described in detail into the user manual. SystemRescueCD is available for free download from the official website.

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