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2. Emergency repair disk - Wikipedia

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   For information about generic boot/recovery discs, see Recovery disc; A Microsoft Windows Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) is a specially formatted diskette that creates backups of important system files and settings and is used to troubleshoot and repair problems in Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems. An ERD is used in conjunction with ...

3. Recovery disc - Wikipedia

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   A typical recovery disk for an Acer PC.. The terms Recovery disc (or Disk), Rescue Disk/Disc and Emergency Disk [1] all refer to a capability to boot from an external device, possibly a thumb drive, that includes a self-running operating system: the ability to be a boot disk/Disc that runs independent of an internal hard drive that may be failing, or for some other reason is not the operating ...

4. Boot disk - Wikipedia

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   A modern PC is configured to attempt to boot from various devices in a certain order. If a computer is not booting from the device desired, such as the floppy drive, the user may have to enter the BIOS Setup function by pressing a special key when the computer is first turned on (such as Delete, F1, F2, F10 or F12), and then changing the boot order. [6]

5. Ultimate Boot CD - Wikipedia

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   The Ultimate Boot CD contains freeware and open-source diagnostic tools from a variety of sources. Many of these tools were originally designed to boot from a floppy disk drive. The Ultimate Boot CD made it possible to run them on a PC without a floppy drive. [5] UBCD can also run from USB for computers without an optical drive. [5]

6. TestDisk - Wikipedia

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   TestDisk is a free and open-source data recovery utility that helps users recover lost partitions or repair corrupted filesystems. [1] TestDisk can collect detailed information about a corrupted drive, which can then be sent to a technician for further analysis.

7. List of live CDs - Wikipedia

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   A live CD or live DVD is a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive.

8. Volume boot record - Wikipedia

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   The boot code in the VBR can assume that the BIOS has set up its data structures and interrupts and initialized the hardware. The code should not assume more than 32 KB of memory to be present for fail-safe operation; [1] if it needs more memory it should query INT 12h for it, since other pre-boot code (such as f.e. BIOS extension overlays, encryption systems, or remote bootstrap loaders) may ...

9. SystemRescue - Wikipedia

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   Partition tables and disk management – fdisk, gdisk, cfdisk [14] smartmontools – a S.M.A.R.T. suite for drive health reporting and data loss prevention; Supports the use of Virtual Private Networks (using OpenVPN, Wireguard, OpenConnect) TestDisk – A tool to check, recover and repair partitions [16]