I graduated my college in Architecture and right now I am going to refresh my knowledge and learn more about American Standards at NWTC. My hobbies are: Helping out People, Computers, Software, Internet, Web Design and Cooking. I like to travel to see new countries, cities, and amazing cultures. I have only one thing to say: If you want success in your life you should be focused on your Goals.
I am the Founder of Article Inspector
What do you do when you have a System Crash? In this Article I am going to publish few Boot-CDs what you can use when you have to save your files after an operation system issue.
You can use Boot CDs in many ways like: Start your computer after a System Crash, make new Partitions on your Hard Drive or clone your complete Hard Drive. With best Live-CDs you can fix your PC under any operation system like Linux and Windows.
You don`t have to install any of all those Boot-CDs on your computer before you want to use it. You can run all Boot-CDs without any Operation System. You don`t need any Administration Password to run Boot-CDs either, because they are only to save your files after an Operation System Crash.
I have tested 4 different Boot-CDs to find out which one is the best choice for anyone who don`t have enough knowledge about Operation Systems and the first aid after System Crash.
Ultimate Boot-CD offers everything, what a Power-User wishes.
You can fix problems on your Drivers and see all your operation system`s preferences. It is not any more how it used to be that you needed many discs to boot your computer. All those features are complete on one Boot-CD. The interface is very easy to use and you can use your mouse too when you start your PC with Ultimate Boot-CD. With Ultimate Boot-CD you can save your BIOS-Preferences and you have choice between many of praxis System-Utilities.
Partition Manger Gparted Live-CD offers the best tools for managing your Hard Drive.
The Partition Manger Gparted Live-CD knows any of File-Systems like FAT32, NTFS or Ext3 and you can make Partitions, delete Partitions, move and resize your Hard Drive`s Partitions. This Software offers exclusive a Linux Interface (Xorg, Luxbox and actual Core) and commends like fdisc, VI, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisc, terminal and midnight and you get a tool to create Screenshots.
The tools DBAN (Darik`s Boot and Nuke) can delete all drivers in different methods. DBAN provides many different standards like Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II, American DoD 5220-22.M and PRNG Stream. After a quick format you won`t be able to get back your data on your hard drive.
PC Inspector Clone Maxx is perfect software to copy your hard drive. You can make copies from your hard drive with 3.3 GB per minute. PC Inspector Clone Maxx copies your hard drive irrespective of the File System like FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, NTFS, Ext2, and etc. That means you can make copy from a NTFS file System and then restore your hard drive on a FAT32 files system.
Ultimate Boot-CD
This Suite has the best useful System Diagnostics Utilities. After start your PC with your Ultimate Boot-CD you are able to use a text menu. You can easily find everything under this menu.
Many free tools like AIDA for DOS, F-Prot Antivirus, Disc Diagnostic from Seatools, Drive Fitness Test, HD Clone, Memtest86, NTFS Reader for DOS, Partition Resizer, E-Maxx and Clone Maxx von PC Inspector or Windows Memory Diagnostic. With those tools you will be able to do everything to recover, restore, back up and rescue your windows and Linux system.
Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.
Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.
Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!
Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that support booting from USB devices. You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version.
When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.
More Features:
Hard Drive - Configuration
Hard Drive - Delete
Hard Drive - Partition
DOS- and NTFS-File Management
DOS- and Linux-Restore Disc
Start from USB-Memory-Stick
Result
UBCD offers everything what a power user wishes: You can restore your damaged files on your hard drive or you can find out everything about your system file system. On just one CD you have hundreds of tools. The interface is based on text but everything is easy to understand. With UBCD you can save your BIOS Preferences on a DISC.
Gparted Live-CD
Gparted Live-CD is a Partition Manager and can work with Files Systems like FAT32, NTFS or Ext3. It can build, delete, move and resize the Partitions.
This software include a Linux interface with Xorg, Flux Box and latest core and it contain programs like fdisk, vi, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisc, terminal, midnight commander and a tool to create screenshots.
Result
The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD.
The CD looks to be fast, small in size (Only 50 MB), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.
Being up to date is important! GParted LiveCD will be updated alongside the GParted source releases and have minor releases when bugs are fixed or new file system tools become available.
The CD also offers the following programs: parted and fdisk vi, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisk, Terminal and Midnight Commander. And also tool to make screenshots.
GParted LiveCD runs on most x86 machines with a Celeron 500 MHz or better. The minimal amount of memory I have tested is 64MO.
With Gparted Live-CD you can create and delete partitions. You can fill out your data if you are missing something for example.
The tools DBAN (Darik`s Boot and Nuke) can delete all drivers in different methods. DBAN provides many different standards like Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II, American DoD 5220-22.M and PRNG Stream. After a quick format you won`t be able to get back your data on your hard drive.
More Features:
-Log - Function
-Covers IDE-, SATA-, SATA2-, XT-, SCSI-, PATA-Controller
-Covers ISA, MCA and PCI-Bus
Result
When you would delete your files on your hard drive immediately then DBAN is the best tool for you. If you use this software to delete your files then you can never get back your files with any other software and hardware. They will be gone forever. If you buy an used hard drive you should use this tool to delete all data on your hard drive.
PC Inspector Clone Maxx
PC Inspector Clone Maxx is perfect software to copy your hard drive. You can make copies from your hard drive with 3.3 GB per minute. PC Inspector Clone Maxx copies your hard drive irrespective of the File System like FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, NTFS, Ext2, and etc. That means you can make copy from a NTFS file System and then restore your hard drive on a FAT32 files system.
This tool can copy your files so fast because it tests your PC-Main board and your hard drive connection. And then it uses the DMA from Chips on your motherboard to receive the highest speed.
You start Cloce Maxx from Boot-CD. With command “cmaxx –en” you can start your PC in English or with commend “cmaxx –de” in German. PC Inspector Clone Maxx copies your hard drive irrespective of the File System like FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, NTFS, Ext2, and etc. That means you can make copy from a NTFS file System and then restore your hard drive on a FAT32 files system.
Result
This tool has only one function: Clone the Hard Drives. It clones the Hard Drive fast, easy and trustful.
You can download PC Inspector Clone Maxx here.