When Desktop Disaster Strikes, Linux Rides To The Rescue
A friend in need, the saying goes, is a friend indeed. And the next time your Windows PC goes belly-up at the worst possible time, your new best friend just might turn out to be a Linux rescue CD.
Linux is a popular choice for PC recovery and repair tasks for several reasons. For one thing, it is highly portable: Most distros offer "live" versions that can run entirely from a CD or other compact media. Some distros are so compact that they will fit on a USB drive or even on a set of floppy disks -- and still leave plenty of room for a suite of repair and recovery tools. That's helpful, since Linux supports a vast array of tools suitable for diagnosing PC problems and -- above all -- retrieving data from mangled, all-but-useless hard-disk file systems.
Of course, there is also the fact that a typical Linux rescue CD consists entirely of open-source software. It won't cost you a penny to use, and it allows developers to adapt the code to suit their needs. Many popular Linux "rescue" distros, for example, are actually stripped-down, customized versions of familiar distros such as Debian, Knoppix, and Mandriva.
This is a big topic, and there are a lot of options to consider when you select a Linux-based rescue CD.
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re: Desktop Disaster
Talk about taking the scenic route.
Image your system (no matter what OS it uses) and you're 15 minutes away from a full bare metal restore. It's just that simple.
As to data - if it's not backed up and you have a storage failure - you've already made the decision and declared that your data has no value.
Like to play (as in test out new apps/drivers/scripts/etc) ALWAYS do that in a VM session, NOT your production box.
None of these concepts are rocket science, yet so many people just love to FUBAR their system and then whine about it.
Like the saying goes - if you don't want that hammer to hurt when you slam it into your head - STOP USING THE HAMMER THAT WAY.