This is a recovery tool that has multiple other uses

Oct 22, 2014 07:33 GMT  ·  By

Rescatux, a Linux distribution that allows users to perform all kinds of rescue operations with the help of an easy to use wizard called Rescapp, is now at version 0.32 Beta 2 and is ready for testing.

Rescatux works like a regular Live CD distro, but it has a very specific purpose. Despite the name, this is not really a recovery tool, or at least not for data. It's designed to help in the recovery of entire operating systems by repairing the boot process, the Grub, the MBR for Windows OS, and so on. It also comes with some nice features related to the users of a particular system, but we'll get to that in a minute.

Rescatux is based on Debian, so the GUI should not be too alien for regular users. It has very low hardware requirements and it should be able to run on basically any system from the past decade.

New features added in Rescatux 0.32 beta 2

This tool is already full of very interesting options, but the developers are refining it constantly. Some of the new options are still in the Beta stages and they might remain that way for some time. Other features, like the ability to upgrade a Windows user to admin in the system with just a single mouse click, are working flawlessly.

"As you might imagine the biggest improvement in this release is that resetting windows password, promoting a windows user to Administrador and unlocking a windows user uses the latest version of chntpw which makes easier and more safe to add users to the admin group. It also fixes a bug that prevented a promoted admin user to be demoted from windows."

"Finally you can boot Rescatux from Super Grub2 Disk thanks to its loopback.cfg file which I hope will be accepted upstream in Debian Live soon although they seem to be busy with Jessie freeze. In the development arena I have removed old scripts and add new build folders so that everything is easier to understand when developing Rescatux," says the developer.

Other improvements that have been made in this release include Btrfs support, much better CPU detection, and the ability to fix MBR entries for Windows 7 operating systems.

A complete list of changes can be found in the official announcement. You can download Rescatux 0.32 Beta 2 right now from Softpedia.

Keep in mind that this is still a Beta release. Some features might not work properly, so it would be a good idea not to use this on a production machine.