Which live CD for recovery

David Robillard david.robillard at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 13:05:30 PST 2006


> Which live CD is recommended for recovery? What I'd like is to have as
> many disk analysis tools at hand just in case.

There are a lot to choose from, as you can see from this list:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

> I believe one of two things has happened: the anti virus placed a system
> file in the vault, or running windows update the "genuine windows
> disadvantage tool" disabled the system because it may have been pirate
> (don't know).

AFAIK the Windows Genuine Advantage never prevents you from booting
your machine. It will annoy you with pop-ups about your license (or
lack of it). Fortunately, you can disable the pop-ups. Keep in mind
that a non-legit Windows machine can only perform the Security
updates, but cannot perform the other Windows Updates. This can be
confusing for a technologically challenged user.

> So, I need to recover data to some other machine, and then see if I can
> recover the system file without a full reinstall.

Do you have a USB drive? Can you mount it on the crippled Windows Box?
If so, then I would suggest that you backup the user's data, format
the crippled box's disk drive and do a clean Windows install. After
all, there probably was a virus on this box. Are you sure you want to
take chances?

Good luck,

David
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David Robillard
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CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator
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