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1. Alex    

   Student at Student | about 2 years ago
   The leading standard

   Rescatux was the standard for grub repair in MBR and EFI systems. It has a ton of tools. Recent updates arent compatible with new machines and the system wont load anymore. If you have a GPU+CPU machine (like a AMD A6 R4) forget to use rescatux.

   However if your machine is compatible, use rescatux as it's probably the best tool for repairing boot problems, disk management and thousand of thing more.

   🏁 Competitors: Boot Repair Disk

   👍 Pros:    Lots of functionalities|Open-source|Free to use

   👎 Cons:    New versions lack compatibility with amd desktop gpu+cpu boards|Rescuapp isn't ready for installing in other distros so you could load other live distro and use it

Parted Magic mentions (33)

• Installing windows and it says that driver is missing, not drives

  You could, for example, boot your computer to an operating system which resides on a USB stick, and then examine the health of your existing drive.... Booting to something like Parted Magic, since it has most of the tools you'd need for "fixing" hard drives, already included with the OS. All that would take, is a USB stick, and a computer to download and mount the image on the stick (with a program like YUMI). Source: 11 months ago

• Need help putting unallocated space to windows partition, any help would be appreciated

  But, ranting aside, you can use either * GParted Live, or * PartedMagic To boot into a linux OS and modify the drive's partitions. Specifically you'll want to move the “D:” disk partition to make the unallocated space next to the disk partition you want to extend. Source: 11 months ago

• Completely Wipe an Old Hard Drive: DBAN Alternatives?

  Purchase a copy of Parted Magic. https://partedmagic.com/. I buy one every few years. Supports the maintainer. Great set of tools. Source: 11 months ago

• Completely Wipe an Old Hard Drive: DBAN Alternatives?

  Purchase a copy of parted magic. Great utility Linux distro. I buy a new version every few years. https://partedmagic.com/. Source: 11 months ago

• I want to destroy a hdd(question). I threw it from a balcony 3m tall. Dunked it in water for like 10 days. Can I throw that thing in the trash knowing in the absurd chance someone picks it up, can't recover something?

  For future reference, running something like Active KillDisk or Parted Magic against the drive multiple passes should be more than sufficient to prevent most all recovery unless you're dealing with a government entity. Source: 12 months ago

Rescatux mentions (0)