SystemRescue

SystemRescue (Previously known as "SystemRescueCD") is a Linux distribution for x86 64 and x86 computers. The primary purpose of SystemRescue is to repair unbootable or otherwise damaged computer systems after a system crash. SystemRescue is not intended to be used as a permanent operating system. It runs from a Live CD, a USB flash drive or any type of hard drive. It was designed by a team led by François Dupoux, and is based on Arch Linux since version 6.0. Starting with version 6.0, it has systemd as its init system. SystemRescue is capable of graphics using the Linux framebuffer option for tools such as GParted. It has options such as connecting to the Internet through an ADSL modem or Ethernet and graphical web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. SystemRescue features include: GNU Parted and GParted to partition disks and resize partitions, including and NTFS fdisk to edit the disk partition table 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 nwipe - a secure data erasure tool (fork of DBAN) for harddrives to remove data remanence, supports Gutmann method plus other overwriting standard algorithms and patterns. A CD and DVD burner - dvd+rw-tools Two bootloaders - GRUB and SYSLINUX Web browsers - Firefox, 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 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 Can boot FreeDOS, Memtest86+, hardware diagnostics and other boot disks from a single CD The CD can also boot from a customized DVD which has almost 4.