Which live CD for recovery

Kay Abendroth kay.abendroth at raxion.net
Wed Dec 6 10:43:11 PST 2006


Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Which live CD is recommended for recovery? What I'd like is to have as 
> many disk analysis tools at hand just in case.
> 
> The case is that I am not recovering a FBSD system but Windows XP 
> (*sigh*). After trying to help a friend clean her pc for virus it won't 
> boot, even in safe mode... oooops.
> 
> 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).
> 
> So, I need to recover data to some other machine, and then see if I can 
> recover the system file without a full reinstall.

I would give Knoppix [ www.knoppix.org ] a try. You should be able to 
read-only mount the NTFS/FAT-32 partition and copy it to a safe place.

After that try booting from the Windows-CD and repair the installation 
(without reformatting first). If that won't help, you have to make a 
fresh install.


Kay

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