Alternatives to Grml for all platforms with any license

Hiren's BootCD

Hiren's BootCD (HBCD) is a completely free bootable CD that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations like analyzing, recovering...
- Discontinued The project is not actively being developed. Although it is still working and well, last version, 15.2, was released in 2012.
Free Personal Windows Linux
Portable File Recovery Registry repairing Add a feature

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SystemRescueCd

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to...

Free Open Source Linux Self-Hosted
Rescue cd Add a feature

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Ultimate Boot CD

The last Boot CD you'll ever need. You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to: Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are...

Free Windows Linux
Recover deleted files Portable Add a feature

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Knoppix

Knoppix is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD / DVD (Live CD) or a USB key (Live USB), one of the first of its kind for any...
- It's very good because it has loads of devices and live page's for windows Guest • Jun 2019
Free Open Source Linux
Booting from USB Portable Linux Privacy focused Add a feature

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Hiren’s BootCD PE

Hiren’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....

Free Windows Linux
Hardware Diagnostics Ram diagnostics File Recovery Registry repairing Add a feature

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AIO Boot

AIO Boot is an All-in-One bootable software for USB and HDD. AIO Boot support boots through Grub2, Grub4Dos, Clover and rEFInd.

Free Windows
Create bootable USB Create Multiboot USB Add a feature

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Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Portable Add a feature

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ALT Linux

ALT Linux is a set of RPM-based operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel and Sisyphus packages repository.

Free Open Source Linux
Recover deleted files Rescue cd Add a feature

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Winpe 10-8 Sergei Strelec (English version)

A bootable x32/x64 collection of life saving programs.Feels like Hirens for Today !.
- Warning Malware detected by https://alternativeto.net/software/virustotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/8806994b96edf7c50d3faa1cb6873a8de771a69259f216edf601d0bdd512444f/detection
Free Windows
Driver Emulation Recover deleted files Hardware Diagnostics Low level ... File Recovery Rescue cd Add a feature

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AppleJack

AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have...

Free Open Source Mac
No features added Add a feature

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Finnix

Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian GNU/Linux. You can use...
- Discontinued Last version 04.06.2015. See https://www.finnix.org/Download
Free Open Source Linux
Based on Debian Network Monitoring Rescue cd Add a feature

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USB/DVD DLC Boot 2019

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...
- Discontinued Official website unavailable.
Free Open Source Windows
LiveUSB UEFI Support Add a feature

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Hoek's Tools

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...
- Discontinued The project is no longer updated and a download is no longer provided on the official website, but you can still download last version, 0.1.001, released on April 20, 2013. See the link to the setup file in the comments.
Free Windows
Portable File Recovery Registry repairing App Store Add a feature

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Ikki Boot

Ikki Boot is a Live CD/USB multiboot which aims troubleshooting, disk partitioning, rescue, backup and restore data.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Backup Disk Cloning File Recovery Rescue cd Add a feature

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ROSA Linux

ROSA Linux is a Linux operating system and distribution, developed by Russian company LLC NTC IT ROSA. It is available in three different editions: ROSA Desktop Fresh...

Free Personal Open Source Linux Mandriva Linux
Linux Add a feature

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