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System Rescue CD By Jay Fougere One of the most useful rescue disks for both Windows and Linux systems that I have found is SystemRescueCD (SRCD); A free (as in beer and freedom!) "live" Linux distribution that allows for booting on either a 32-bit or 64-bit Intel/AMD system. SRCD is based on my favorite Linux distribution, Gentoo. I like to run SRCD from a USB drive, however there is no reason you cannot burn it to CD-ROM. In fact, for older systems, burning to a disk might be required in order to boot the system. Installing on a USB stick is simple and involves using the same *.iso as if you were going to burn to CD, so you will not waste time with the download regardless of which method you want to try. Also, the distribution is only about 250MB, thus even on moderate broadband you will be able to download the ISO image in a reasonable amount of time. Continue Reading

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