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<p>Which one of these tools is right for you depends on your skill level, operating system and particular problem.  Do yourself a favor and burn yourself a disc with a couple of these <i>before</i> the terrible day when you need 'em happens.</p>

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Lifehacker has featured BartPE before, however it did not make the Top 10? Perhaps because it's not 100% free, since requires a Windows XP, 2003, etc. CD/DVD to create a rescue boot disc. Either way, I think it's a great utility with tons of plugins to fix your computer when it's completely dysfunctional (which is all too often while running Microsoft products). <a href="http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/">http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/</a></p></p>
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What about the Hiren boot disc? I find that to be a blessing from God himself. Its a bootable disc that can partition, recover, install, find passwords, and many many more things. I think that it combines a few of the utilities you show here seperately into one single disc that can do the whole thing! I use it on a weekly basis in my line of work and I always keep spare copies to give to people who want it - and best of all it's free!</p>
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Here's a link to the list of included utilities on the disc:<br />
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Any one have a recovery tool thats free for sd cards? I ran a google search and found that all the trials out there  only allow for viewing the the files they recover and not the saving of them ? </p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267198">geek 101</a>: </p>
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how about restoration?</p>
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Or recuva? </p></p>
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Knoppix rocks.  I had a business computer bios chip fry and the motherboard wouldn't run.  I installed the harddrive into another windows machine, but I couldn't open or copy any files.  I kept getting a permissions error.  I popped in Knoppix, transferred all the files to the new harddrive, and was done.  </p>
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Knoppix can also teach you that Linux isn't scary.  </p>
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An additional Linux Live CD that I've used for recovery is Ubuntu.  </p></p>
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Just like the comment a day or two regarding burning iso files on a Mac, this one has also come just a couple days late for me!  Good information to know having encountered my first serious set of problems with Windows!</p></p>
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Call it extortionate if you wish, but if all you need to do to get data from a drive is use a Linux LiveCD...you aren't getting charged that much. More like $250-$550, depending on the level of recovery required. And the higher end of that range typically involves recovering files off of a -formatted- drive, not just deleted files or a crashed OS.</p>
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I guess if they are charging $800 for that kind of service, yes, it is extortionate. But I think you'll find if you look around, you'll find some nearly ubiquitous locations that will do it much cheaper.</p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267198">geek 101</a>: Undelete Plus should work for you or really any file recovery app.  Your SD card is just another disk!</p>
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Knoppix was my very favorite until yesterday, when GParted was able to boot up my dead Vista laptop when nothing else could help me fix Vista's boot manager problem (which, to be fair, I very much caused myself).  Really all of these are great apps, ordering them in this list was really hard.</p></p>
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@ l951b951</p>
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"but I couldn't open or copy any files."</p>
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I think what you needed to do was to set the 'Owner' on the NTFS permissions.</p>
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See this: <a href="http://www.defectivekit.net/2007/03/gain-control-of-those-access-denied.html">http://www.defectivekit.net/2007/03/gain-control-of-those-...</a></p>
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@<a href="#c1267495">areReady</a>:  I used the $800 figure based on a friend of a friend's recent experience getting an estimate from a repair shop for a perfectly good hard drive that wasn't accessible from a fried computer.  Certainly one should shop around for better prices, but often these data recovery places prey on the uninformed.</p></p>
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Best thing out there is Dave's Ultimate Boot CD. Search for it in torrents, it might be under DUBCD. It basically has Hiren's (which rules) a couple other boot dics complilations and my personal favorite miniPE2. I use the last one for recpvering crashed data, creating ghost images, fixing partition tables. There's nothing better in my opinion.  </p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267175">mystread</a>: </p>
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@<a href="#c1267175">mystread</a>: That page has a wonderful list of programs, but no download link! How do you obtain this BootCD?<br />
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@<a href="#c1267548">jjb</a>: That answers my question to @mystread, above. Thanks!</p>
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Would any of the tools work on an external hard drive (Western Digital) to recover files from the drive??</p></p>
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Gina,</p>
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Heck yeah! I've used the Ultimate Boot CD and reported on it last year. I wrote about it here.</p>
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<a href="http://www.dcs-media.com/technology/Detail.aspx?ArticleId=353">http://www.dcs-media.com/technology/Detail.aspx?ArticleId=...</a></p>
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Thanks for the additional freebies. I got to check those out as well.<br />
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So many wonderful options for system recovery! What I want is to be pro-active and backup my stuff so that when the crash-monster comes, I have additional options.</p>
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What I would love to find is a utility that was:<br />
* a live CD that, when booted would scan the system for drivers and such...<br />
* and create a custom, bootable USB disk...<br />
* containing a backup-to-DVD solution that made...<br />
* bootable DVDs</p>
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This would be useful across platforms (we use Linux and XP in my house)... Is there such a thing, or am I chasing smoke?</p></p>
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Hirens is not free software.  They are licensed copies of software.  Why would Symantec and Acronis give away there imaging software away for free.  Acronis is really good software proably the best has live system imaging.</p></p>
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About a month or so ago, I had a hard drive decide to delete it's Master Boot Record and tried knoppix and Ubuntu, as well as Spinrite to recover the files. I wasn't aware of UBCD...It might have helped.</p>
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I was very close to sending the drive out to a recovery company when I did one final Google search and happened upon an amazing little program called GetDataBack from <a href="http://www.runtime.org/.">http://www.runtime.org/.</a> They have versions for NTFS and FAT. But for $79 it will do a sector by sector search of the errant hard drive and determine if that sector contained a file, etc. then it will provide you with an explorer-esque window. Just copy over the files you want to rescue. As far as I can tell I recovered all my files without a problem. </p>
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@R J: An external HDD is nothing more than an internal HDD in an enclosure with a separate power supply, different data transfer bus (i.e. firewire &/or USB), and possibly cooling.  So the limitations for running recovery programs wouldn't be any different then for recovering data of normal hard drives.</p>
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I think Undelete Plus would work for you... but regardless of drive-type, Undelete Plus (like other data recovery programs) requires that the data blocks were not overwritten with other data before the recovery utility was run.</p>
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R J -<br />
Depends.<br />
They should as long as the boot cd has compatible drivers for the interface of the external drive - usb/firewire/eSata/etc.<br />
I've seen some boot cd solutions work a LOT better than others just for this reason.</p>
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Just a note for anyone trying to do this themselves for the first time. <br />
Every HDD crash is different. What works for some, doesn't always work for others. <br />
If someone here says that a certain tool is the bees knees, it doesn't mean it will neccesarily fix your problem. <br />
That's probably the reason why Gina's team made these recommendations as a group.<br />
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I've had good luck in the past with <a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page">System Rescue CD</a>, which includes GParted and a bunch of other useful tools.</p>
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I used the Knoppix CD to dump data from the drive that wouldnt read in windows to a good drive.</p>
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Worked like a charm after SpinRite and a bunch of windows tools couldnt do anything.</p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267871">sumyunguy</a>: </p>
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Or you could have popped in you Windows XP CD and reconstructed your MBR for free.</p>
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Next time send your drive to me and I'll do it for $79.  I'll even pay the shipping.</p></p>
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Do any of the boot discs or compilations have spybot or avg on the disk? (yes, I have a need...)</p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267789">vogelap</a>: Look into Acronis.  It isn't free by a long shot, but it isn't outrageous either.  It has a live CD which will clone disks and create/restore existing disk images.  So what right?</p>
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What makes Acronis magic is the True Image Workstation.  It'll create backups, even incremental backups, while Windows is running.  You can even cron... errr create a scheduled task so you make an updated image each week.  You can even cron a validate job, where Acronis re-validates the image to be sure there is no corruption.  </p>
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Oh yeah, and it also will create a USB drive bootable with Acronis.  </p>
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As far as collecting drivers, if an image isn't good enough (as it would have all of the drivers), look into "driver collector".  It'll backup your drivers, though I don't know if you can schedule it to do it automatically.  See: <a href="http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3982">http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3982</a></p>
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@<a href="#c1268926">lwdallas</a>: If you can't find a bootable CD with these programs on it (I know some illicit CDs have them: miniPE for example), you could use BartPE to create one.  If that is too much work, take your drive out and plug it into another computer.  Just run the spybot/avg/adaware/whatever from the other computer.  Nothing will be loaded into memory so it should work beautifully.</p>
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If that is too much work, a less functional solution is to boot into safe mode.  Just press F8 repeatedly during boot.  I know you can run some programs from safe mode, but not all.  Since safe mode doesn't load too much stuff into memory, you may be able to clean your system out that way.  </p></p>
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@<a href="#c1268926">lwdallas</a>: The Ultimate Boot CD comes with a couple different anti-virus apps (F-Prot & McAfee).  Also, the BartPE mentioned by bryonw can be built to include McAfee with more current virus definitions and a Ad-Aware.</p></p>
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Anyone know a good CD/DVD recovery program?</p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267110">bryonw</a>: </p>
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<a href="http://ubcd4win.com">http://ubcd4win.com</a></p>
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A BartPE derivative... Works great.</p>
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For simple drive access, Puppy Linux (http://puppyos.com) is my preferred live Linux disc.  It has read/write access to FAT/FAT32/NTFS drives.  It's also very light and fast and will run in a GUI on virtually any x86 PC with 128MB of RAM...</p></p>
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@Manzabar<br />
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I've done a lot of data recovery (and then I learned that backups are worth their weight in gold).  My one relevant comment then my experiences.  Gparted recently started coming with Clonezilla (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php), so it can not just mess with partitioning, but also clone disks and make images, kind of like an Acronis live CD.  </p>
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I've had really good success with r-studio.  It is about $80, but works like a charm on fat & ntfs drives.  It also does ext2/3, but not as well.  </p>
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For a linux disk I've had pretty good success with Stellar Pheonix Linux Data Recovery.  It is pretty easy, but if you don't mind getting your hands dirty, Foremost has been more successful for me.  </p>
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And if you just deleted the partition (whoops), you can always just grep the drive (grep -a -B 1 -A 5 /dev/hda1 jpg) or first dump the contents of the drive to a text file and look through it (grep -a /dev/hda > hda1dump.txt).  Although this is less and less feasible the larger the drive gets.  </p></p>
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Looks like my last comment went to never never land.  I just wanted to point out that the gparted live CD now comes with Clonezilla.  So you can create disk images, restore existing images, clone a disk, etc.  All in addition to the partitioning ability of gparted.  </p>
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In my experience R-Studio has been the best for recovering data off a fat/ntfs drive.  Spinrite has been the best for fixing a dying drive long enough to run R-Studio.  </p>
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For Linux recovery, R-Studio does ext2/3, but not very well.  Phoenix Stellar Data Recovery is easy to use and pretty good.  Foremost has worked the best for me, though it isn't quite as user-friendly.  </p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267198">geek 101</a>: Try Zero Assumption Recovery.  My stepmother had a SD card that was corrupt.  I did a Google search and came across ZAR.  It recovered everything from the card and it was free.</p></p>
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I mostly just use Knoppix for most (non-Mac) problems.  It does what I need most of the time.  </p>
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For recovering a really screwed Windows drive, <a href="http://www.runtime.org/">GetDataBack</a> has had the best success rate of the tools I've seen.  It's only $80 and free lifetime updates. You could pay for that with one repair job for a desperate friend.</p>
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For a whopping $1200, <a href="http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/Default.aspx">Winternal's Admin Pack</a> (specifically the ERD Commander) can do a lot of Windows-specific stuff that I've never really needed except resetting a password.  There will be a Microsoft-branded version soon. Any chance of it being free? :(</p></p>
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I cannot believe Recuva is not on the list. It is just too good to be missed.</p>
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<a href="http://www.vista4beginners.com/recuva">http://www.vista4beginners.com/recuva</a></p></p>
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@<a href="#c1267548">jjb</a>: Sorry, I wasn't aware of the questionable legality of the discs contents, I honestly don't know what to think about that.</p>
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@<a href="#c1267600">cipheroid</a>: If you Google it there are a number of places that have it. Make sure to look for version 8.9 (the latest one). I got it off of one of the top 5 links today because I needed the .iso again.</p></p>
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@jambarama: Thanks for your reply. I've checked out Acronis, but haven't been able to successfully use it to:<br />
* Create a bootable USB<br />
* Boot from that USB to...<br />
* Backup my Linux (FC6) system to DVDs.</p>
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@<a href="#c1269572">vogelap</a>: In Acronis True Image Workstation (7.0+) click Tools > Create Bootable Rescue Media.  Then select your USB drive and it'll go.  </p>
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Unfortunately, AFAIK the Acronis bootable USB drive won't burn discs.  The best you can do is create a disk image (.tib file) on a network share (or another drive), then burn it later when booted into a full OS.  </p>
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Great list, i also use hiren's boot CD i know that is not free but have a lot of cool tools to repair or recover information, but with list i think i consider still using it because of licensis.</p></p>
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Thanks to every one who helped me !!</p></p>
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Geek 101,<br />
For SD data recovery you can use a CONVAR program called PC Inspector Smart Recovery that does an excellent job and is free.<br />
Saved my ass on our California vacation where the SD card got munged at a friends SD reader.<br />
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@<a href="#c1270579">geek 101</a>: For SD data recovery you can use a CONVAR program called PC Inspector Smart Recovery that does an excellent job and is free.<br />
Saved my ass on our California vacation where the SD card got munged at a friends SD reader.</p></p>
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I work in computer forensics and I use Helix as much as I do the tools that cost a $1000 or more.  If I had to choose one tool, it would be Helix.</p>
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For those fans of Knoppix, you should also try the latest nix live cd Mandriva 2007 Metisse,<br />
Its a really cool Free boot cd, thier answer to MS Vista I think, considering all the desktop flip features and things akin to OSX and Vista. <br />
Check it out:<br />
<a href="http://www.mandriva.com/en/projects/metisse">http://www.mandriva.com/en/projects/metisse</a><br />
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For a Guide on converting a live linux cd to USB go to: </p>
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and for Knoppix to USB<br />
<a href="http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/">http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/</a><br />
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I also recommend Acronis for backing up your files and partitions.  In fact, I restored an image to my tablet today.  Every time I do, it makes me thank Heaven for the thirty dollars that I was wise enough to spend on a license of True Image Home.  After restoring the image, I made MS SyncToy restore all of my documents (from my desktop).  ~12 hours start to finish, ~47,000 files, and expect for a few more program installs, I have practically a new computer.  (Oh so many headaches saved……) </p></p>
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As long as the HD crash doesn't mean the HD literally stop working mechanically, these tools are good.</p></p>
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I keep always a fresh copy of Hiren's Boot CD (just in case) also an iso on the desktop.</p>
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I would love that there where legal ways to get a Windows liveCD (like the super one... wink wink) or a portable MSOffice. Why MS? I really hate to use the cool and really great OpenOffice.org (or it's portable counterpart) and have to reformat a document somebody sent me in say... MSO2003 format (and the OS is needed to run the MSO2003 stuff).</p>
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As for linux live CD's I think that DreamLinux (which you should take a look at) has the tools I need to get some serious job done (and the files can always be stored online).</p>
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Also, correct me if I'm not well informed, but I thought that running any OS from your USB Thumb Drive would ultimately kill it ?(not that it matters much now, even here you can get a 2GB USB Thumb Drive for less than 25 bucks).</p></p>
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* Huggles grml and realizes everything else is infireor. Uhntil he sees that Backtrack cd over there* Backtrack and grml are my picks, lthough your linux-fu needs to be real good to use them.</p></p>
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Ubuntu Live is decent, but it has few recovery tools.  What it offers is really just enough to show a prospective user that Linux can access the internet and play solitaire just as good as a PC.</p></p>
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I use Reatogo PE (Bart PE Derivative]. It's absolutely wonderful. You can create your own customized version of a PE Disc with the latest drivers.You will need to click a few buttons to add the drivers [automatic driver file inclusion]. Heck, it's too good. Especially for people with RAIDed systems. You can download this @ <a href="http://www.reatogo.de/REATOGO.htm">http://www.reatogo.de/REATOGO.htm</a></p>
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Also, you can make any USB Stick bootable by using the free HP Utility.<br />
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HPUSBF.exe : This release provides Windows-based utility to locally partition, format and copy necessary files to a USB flash media device (e.g. HP Drive Key) through the Windows environment. Date 31.03.06 529.4KB<br />
"http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/24434.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN"</p>
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SP27213.exe : This softpaq contains a Windows-based format utility for the HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB 2.0 device. Date 06.02.04 1.9MB<br />
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Now you are in control. Make a new partition in the drive c: , then change the path of "My Documents" folder to D:\Documents and Settings\My documents<br />
Start to move ALL your data to "My documents"<br />
If your windows installation fail, you can reinstall, even more, you can format the drive c: because all your data is in another partition.<br />
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Back in the day, AIDA32 (Google it) was my SysInfo weapon of choice.  I found it much more reliable and powerful than SIW.  Unfortunately, it is no longer being developed.  However, you can still get it from some freeware file download sites.</p></p>
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