Most import rescue tool around: knoppix. (System recovery with Knoppix).
If you haven’t come across it before, Knoppix is a full linux system on a bootable CD; it’s enormously helpful if a disk has become unbootable but still has data readable. I’ve used it when I needed to rebuild a trashed reiserfs partition under Linux and to rescue some data from a trashed XP install. It’s even got partition resizing tools available.
Burn a copy today - if you wait until you need it, it’ll be too late!
Posted by Bill Stilwell at November 29, 2003 06:43 PM