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Post by Lynnrose on Feb 13, 2009 10:27:42 GMT
Source Computer Active magazine
Create backups and fix a broken computer
If you ever use this program, please review it here[/size][/font]
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Post by mikkh on Feb 13, 2009 13:28:37 GMT
It's not exactly user friendly and consists of lots of text based menus
I keep a copy of it in my 'useful tools' collection, but it's as a last resort when everything else fails, rather than a must have CD I reach for automatically.
A lot of Linux 'live' CD's offer similiar functionality, but with a real desktop and GUI rather than this geeky text based effort
It's over 200 MB's but it doesn't offer anywhere near the usefulness of 'Puppy' which is what I use a lot for rescuing files from PC's with a dead version of Windows - and that's about half the size.
Not recommended at all
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Post by mikkh on Feb 13, 2009 14:10:55 GMT
In the interest of fairness, I downloaded the latest version and wasted a CD burning it !
Not only is it not recommended, it's to be avoided at all costs - absolutely abysmal (and it's been removed from my useful tools collection of CD's too - and binned)
Boot the CD and you are offered several choices via the F keys
F1 returns to the first screen
F2 several 'DOS' based utils ( well text based anyway) including...
NTpasswd - to retrieve/change passwords. Judging by the poor usability of the others in this section, I'll keep using 'Ophcrack' for that purpose thankyou
Disk wiper (Dban) wipe your HD's thoroughly to military strength Takes hours though and is available in a floppy version anyway
Aida 16 - absolutely awful early version of what became 'Everest'
Ranish partition manager - terrible geeky program and why include it when 'Gparted' is available elsewhere on the CD
Memtest
F3 Gibberish to the average Windows user
F4 More geek speak
F5 More waffle in pretty coloured text
F6 Network options
F7 Yawn !
If you ignore all this - and you should, then press return to boot the thing
If you want internet access, you *must* use the network setup command
If you don't, just use 'startx' to boot into a minimalist GUI where you offered the choice of several text editors (Why?) Firefox (if you used the network setup command) or Gparted a partition manager like 'Partition Magic'
That's your lot
about as useful as a chocolate teapot compared to other Linux live CD's
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Post by Lynnrose on Feb 16, 2009 17:25:59 GMT
Thanks for your review Mikkh, I can always rely on you x[/size][/font]
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Post by mikkh on Feb 16, 2009 20:37:18 GMT
NP sweetheart, I'm astounded ComputerActive have recommended it without actually trying it properley. It's worthless to me as an experienced Linux user, so it's value to a newcomer is zero, unless you count burning the ISO as Linux experience.
Anyone who wants a genuine 'rescue CD' should look at 'Puppy'
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