Tools for Data recovery provide assistance in your system resources and files. Data recovery and backup are essential in if you need to sustain the purity in your files for a long period. Below are five bootable data restoration tools for Linux systems.
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Hiren’s BootCD
It is one of the best and popular bootabe CDCs out in the market. This bootable CD contains various diagnostic programs like antivirus,backup tool, disk imaging and cloning tools, BIOS tools, partitioning agents, data recovery tool, MBR tools and benchmarks for system performance among others useful in fixing several computer problems. Hiren’s BootCD is a precious tool to use when troubleshooting and engaging in recovery activities in computers. Hiren’s BootCD can be downloaded in an ISO for quick installation to USB.
Boot Repair Disk
This Disk as live CD is useful in repairing numerous Linux distributions. This disk repairs boot loader package from the GNU Project GRUB in Linux and is able to repair many editions in MS windows OSs. This disk is a free of charge recovery disk using a design system that supports single-click repair. This Disk can choose to connect internet in order to send diagnostics of the partition tables of the disk into pastebin sites to access further assistance from the online community.
SpinRite
SpinRite as computer software is useful in scanning magnetic information storage devices like hard disks, restring data in them and revitalizing their surfaces. This program is run using bootable medium (optical disk, floppy disk, bootable peripheral storage device like USB stick) in PC-supporting computer. This program utilizes its operating system while ignoring the installed one regardless of whether it is working or not.
SystemRescueCD
SystemRescueCD functions as an OS for computers using Linux x86 platform; however, the aim of SystemRescueCD involves repairing unbootable or other broken computer systems following a system collapse. SystemRescueCD was never meant to be a permanent OS. It functions from USB flash or Live CD drive. SystemRescueCD supports a variety of extensions including NTFS, XFS, VFAT, etc and also works in a network file system like NFS and samba. SystemRescueCD is downloadable in an ISO format and can be easily burn to a CD.
Trinity Rescue Kit
This has a command-line interface and is an open source and free Linux distribution. Trinity Rescue Kit is developed to be deployed through Live USB or CD. Its author, Tom Kerremans, incorporates in the software several third-party program utilities useful in repairing broken files, resetting passwords, recovering data, disk cloning and identifying computer viruses. This kit is downloadable in an ISO format which you can burn to a CD.