Recover HDD after format

SystemRescueCd is an improvement of the gentoo live cd. It aims to provide an high quality bootable CD-Rom, with all system utilities that can be required to repair your system.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd

There seems to be some utilities for FAT16/32 (dosfstools[^]) and NTSF (NTSFProgs[^]) included on the bootable linux CD

There is also this tool R-Studio 2.0[^]

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm[^]

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