system-repair

Resources and tools to repair, rescue and recover system.

Rescue & Live CD/DVD/USB

• MediCat DVD - A Multiboot Linux DVD with mini Windows 10. Good, was helpful.
• Gandalf’s Windows 10PE x64 Threshold 2
• Hiren's BootCD (outdated)
• Boot-Repair-Disk
• Dr.Web LiveDisk - Emergency system repair from a CD/DVD disk or a bootable USB drive.
• Catalogs
  • The LiveCD List - This site was created to help sort through the many LiveCDs available. It currently tracks LiveCDs, LiveDVDs, and LiveUSB operating systems.
  • Pendrivelinux - provides simplified information to make it easy for anyone to install, boot, and run their favorite Linux Distro from a portable flash drive!
• Reviews
  • Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit
  • Five Best System Rescue Discs
  • LiveCD/DVD/USB — помощь в выборе дистрибутивов, решение вопросов (Russian)

Tools & utilities

• BlueScreenView - scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).
• HDDScan - a freeware software for hard drive diagnostics (RAID arrays servers, Flash USB and SSD drives are also supported). The program can test storage device for errors (Bad-blocks and bad sectors), show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.
• MemTest86 - free, stand alone memory testing software for x86 computers. MemTest86 boots from a USB flash drive and tests the RAM in your computer for faults using a series of comprehensive algorithms and test patterns.
• Rufus - a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

Helpful resources

• BSoDStop.ru (Russian) - компьютерная помощь в борьбе с ошибкой 'Синий экран смерти' (BSoD).
• Event ID database - contains troubleshooting information for 11,587 Windows event IDs and 638 event sources.

Articles & instructions

• Восстановление разделов дисков (Russian) - chkdsk D: /f where D is corrupted disc was helpful.
• Create Live Peppermint CD/DVD/USB to Backup Data when Windows 7 Will Not Boot
• How to Create a Bootable USB Drive Without Using Any Software
• Инструкция по использованию ERD Commander (Microsoft DaRT) (Russian)
• ERD Commander (Russian)
• FlashBoot blogs - flash disk & data recovery (Russian)
• Делаем загрузочную USB флешку Alkid Live DVD (Russian)
• Загрузочная флешка alkid live cd/usb (Russian)