5 specialized Linux distributions for computer repair (Opensource.com)
Aimed at system administrators, SystemRescueCD is a powerful tool for repairing Linux systems. By default, SystemRescueCD boots into console interface with very little hand-holding, but a welcome message provides basic instructions for starting the network interface, running various command line programs (text editors and a web browser), enabling NTFS support in order to read Windows hard drives, and starting the XFCE-based graphical desktop environment. SystemRescueCD does include a large number of utilities, but you really need to know what you are doing to use it."
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