What rescue Boot CD?

[trentlad]

I've always been a fan of Knoppix to help me out of any emergency OS situations.

Last year I found Crunchbang Linux #! (but only used it as a playground) and was also told about Ultimate Boot CD. After reading someone on here recommend Linux Mint, I know these mediums can get outdated and figured I'd put out this question.

So, OcUK what Boot CD do you use for rescue purposes?

 

[Mobius 1]

Hiren boot disk is my boot CD of choice.

 

[bledd]

slax -really small, loads up very quickly
linuxmint

 

[jbloggs]

I like Hiren's...

You'll find a number of them in the General Utilities And Other Applications section (including Slax)...

 

[HighlandeR]

Ive used hirens, powermix has some very nice programs like registry rollback but its mainly good for xp systems.

Idealy would be great to have one with Kaspersky bootscan/Avira scan/Superantispyware and Malwarebytes scan just to rescue from bug ridden stuff !

 

[trentlad]

You'll find a number of them in the General Utilities And Other Applications

*sigh* You really shouldn't have shown me this...

Excellent link jbloggs. Thank you.

 

[deadite66]

sysresccd

 

[Mobius 1]

Ive used hirens, powermix has some very nice programs like registry rollback but its mainly good for xp systems.

Idealy would be great to have one with Kaspersky bootscan/Avira scan/Superantispyware and Malwarebytes scan just to rescue from bug ridden stuff !

i know hirens has malwarebytes built into its miniXP part of the disk. but not sure about the others. i love the miniXP feature

i've noticed the 10.5 CD now contains a mini linux too but not tried that yet.

 

[Smit]

I use a USB version of the Ultimate Boot CD.

Had to use it last weekend and everything went OK.

 

[trentlad]

Smit: Did you use that on a computer with W7 installed or XP? If W7, did you have to do any OS specific tasks?