Linux Alternative to BartPE

Nebzor · 7 May 2008 at 22:44

Anyone know of any decent alternatives to BartPE? I'm not talking about Knoppix, I mean a bona fide system recovery tool with some good hardware support and also NTFS/FAT16/FAT32 support.

If so, is it comparable to BartPE with some decent plugins or not?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Just to clarify, when I say system recovery tool, I mean the whole works: partition management, file management, network support, drive imaging/cloning/backup/restore etc.

growse · 7 May 2008 at 23:06

What do you feel Knoppix lacks? AFAIK, it's got ntfs-3g (ntfs support), gpartd (partitioner), dd (drive / partition cloning) and loads more?

Nebzor · 7 May 2008 at 23:14

Just feel that it's not the appropriate tool for the job.

Am currently taking a look at the Trinity Rescue Kit and Recovery Is Possible.

Anyone have experience with either of these?

pingwing · 8 May 2008 at 00:44

Gentoo live cd does all this if you can handle the command line....

(yeah i may be a little gentoo fan boy of sorts but still)

swinnie · 8 May 2008 at 09:48

Why do not want to use BartPE? BartPE is a brilliant tool. I use it to image partitions with integrated Ghost, and I have used the "GetDataBack for Fat" plugin and that is good too.

TrX · 8 May 2008 at 21:09

swinnie said:
Why do not want to use BartPE? BartPE is a brilliant tool. I use it to image partitions with integrated Ghost, and I have used the "GetDataBack for Fat" plugin and that is good too.

There are a good number of reasons, such as wanting to interact Read/Write with non windows systems with EXT2/3/Reiser/UFS file systems.

Or even the fact that you legally need to own a copy of windows to run bartPE, and he may be in a strictly checked IT environment?