“Anyone who dual-boots, runs, or manages a heterogeneous network
with Windows and Linux workstations must occasionally contend with
offline or dead systems. Of course, the open source world has
plenty of good tools to help get these boxes back on track, or at
least recover valuable data. Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is a small
yet powerful bootable Linux distribution that rescues, repairs,
resets passwords, and clones dead Linux and Windows
installations.“Based on binaries from Mandriva 2005, the latest version, TRK
3.1, has been reinforced with heavily adapted bootup scripts. TRK
includes scripts that download updates from the Internet and
rebuild the ISO, so it’s wise to burn the 85.3MB downloaded ISO
onto a rewriteable CD (CD-RW)…”