A free bootable CD that contains a multitude of tools for analyzing, recovering, and fixing your computer even if its operating system does not start.
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RIPLinuX Alternatives
RIPLinuX is described as 'Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a Slackware-based CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to RIPLinuX for Linux, Windows and Self-Hosted. The best RIPLinuX alternative is Hiren’s BootCD. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Hiren’s BootCD or Hiren’s BootCD PE. Other great apps like RIPLinuX are Parted Magic, Ikki Boot, Rescatux and Hoek's Tools.
Alternatives list
- 25 Hiren’s BootCD alternatives
32 Hiren’s BootCD PE alternativesHiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a restored edition of Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64. PE version is being developed by Hiren’s BootCD fans. it supports UEFI booting and requires minimum 2 GB RAM.
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29 SystemRescue alternativesSystemRescue is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
38 Parted Magic alternativesBootable operating system with GParted and Parted, offers powerful partition management, disk cloning, secure erasure, data rescue, benchmarking, password reset, extensive filesystem support, and advanced tools for storage, compatible with low-end hardware.
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Ikki Boot is a Live DVD/USB multiboot which aims troubleshooting, disk partitioning, rescue, backup and restore data.
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17 Rescatux alternativesRescatux is a GNU/Linux rescue cd (and eventually also Windows) but it is not like other rescue disks. Rescatux comes with Rescapp. Rescapp is a nice wizard that will guide you through your rescue tasks.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Hoek’s Tools is a vast collection of portable utilities for the management, diagnosis and repairing of computer problems, recover lost or deleted files or cracking passwords. There are literally hundreds of utilities.
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The primary purpose of Super GRUB2 Disk is to help you boot into an OS whose bootloader is broken. Second, and almost as important, is to be a tool to learn more about GRUB2 and the booting process.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- 25 USB/DVD DLC Boot 2019 alternatives
DLC Boot 2019 is a rescue disk that is used as a Recovery CD. The point is that if you are having problems such as Windows can not boot, missing MBR, want to format the hard drive, remove viruses and so on, you can simply use the DLC Boot 2019 to resolve the issue.
Boots PCs with startup issues, recovers data from non-bootable drives, fixes over 100 Windows boot problems, resets lost passwords, backs up and clones partitions, restores files from crashed systems or formatted drives, and secures sensitive data.
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17 Grml alternativesBootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian especially well suited for administrative tasks like installation, deployment and system rescue.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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