Boot Disks

Early Macintosh Image LoadEr allows to boot linux-m68k from a floppy on a macintosh such as MacII or Quadra 610. With it, you can create rescue disk, or remove the MacOS partition (needed by the legacy penguin booter) from your HD. Create a floppy from rescue disk image You can find floppy...

CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that `exports all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (audio and VideoCD tracks)... The primary goal for developing this file system was to `unlock information in...

Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them. The project supports Win95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools can now handle the long filenames of Windows NT and Windows 95....


Platforms: *nix

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux in short DRBL is an open source environment to to manage GNU/Linux operating system deployment. Imagine the time required to install GNU/Linux on 40, 30, or even 10 client machines individually. DRBL will allow you to configure all of your client computers by...


Platforms: *nix

PAUD (Parted And Utilities Disk) is a Linux utility boot disk distribution. It fits on a single 1.44 floppy disk. It contains mc, parted, and other utilities such as filesystem utilities for ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs. It is great for partition maintenance and for rescue purposes. The latest...


Platforms: *nix

Pentoo is a Linux LiveCD, it means that you can boot a linux environment on any x86 based PC. It is like KNOPPIX except that Pentoo is based on the Gentoo distribution and is oriented penetration testing. You can view the list of all available tools here . Well, I know there is already many...


Platforms: *nix

eMoviX is a package that allows you to create bootable CDs able to boot & autoplay your multimedia files. It is intended mainly to play video files but if you want it can be used to play also audio files. I plan to release eventually a distro similar to eMoviX but aimed at audio only, so stay...


Platforms: *nix

DiskSearch is a tool for searching for files on all your removable media disks (e.g. CD's, ZIP disks or backup tapes). For instance you can search for songs on your MP3-CD's or for a document on your backup DVD's. For advanced queries there is a regular expression search mode. The search is based...


Platforms: *nix

KBoot project is a proof-of-concept implementation of a Linux boot loader based on kexec. KBoot uses a boot loader like LILO or GRUB to load a regular Linux kernel as its first stage. Then, the full capabilities of the kernel can be used to locate and to access the kernel to be booted. KBoot...


Platforms: *nix

Bootchart is a software for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and can later be displayed in a PNG, SVG or EPS-encoded chart. The boot process is modified to start the boot...


Platforms: *nix

Mac OS X litters many hidden files on non-native partitions and shared network drives. Clean Up Non Mac Disks is an AppleScript application for getting rid of them. Just drop the partition onto Clean Up Non Mac Disks or select the partition to clean after double clicked before ejecting.


Platforms: Mac

Apple Boot Desktop Theme is a desktop theme including wallpapers and screensavers. Optimized for Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard.Use the wallpapers to get a nice backround on your desktop,choose between original gray apple, light gray apple and white appleUse the apple boot screensavers, wich are in...


Platforms: Mac

Don't wait for a disaster to strike - get an instant data and system recovery kit today to ensure your protection! Rescue Kit professionally fixes boot problems as well as retrieves your data when your system fails to boot. It even rescues deleted partitions. All you need to do to achieve...


Platforms: Windows

Want to access your PC anytime, anywhere, but don't like throwing money away to an always-on system? Now, PC in My Hand will help you realize your ideas: boot and control your system remotely by iPhone, ipad, Android, BlackBerry,Windows Mobile/PPC, Nokia/Symbian, Palm or other Notebook etc....


Platforms: Windows, Other

Passcape ISO Burner is an advanced solution that enables even inexperienced users to create bootable CD, DVD or USB disks from ISO images quickly and conveniently. Its wizard-driven interface is clear and simple, so that the program is easy to master without any difficulties. But the most...


Platforms: Windows

Lazesoft Windows Recovery Home Edition is free Windows system recovery bootable disk. Lazesoft Windows Recovery Home Edition offers home users complete solutions to fix boot problem, retrieve valuable files, Undelete Partition, etc. With easy to use interfaces, you can using Lazesoft Windows...


Platforms: Windows

DVD Copier is a program for Windows that allows you to grab data DVDs, HD DVDs, Video DVDs and Blu-ray disks (ISO) containing any type of files into a blank DVDV disc or to an Image file (like ISO format). It grabs any type of DVD. SPTI (SCSI Pass through Interface) and ASPI (Advanced SCSI...


Platforms: Windows

NTFS Reader DOS Boot Disk provides read access to NTFS drives from the MS DOS environment. It supports long filenames as well as compressed and fragmented files. NTFS Reader for DOS allows you to preview the files on NTFS and copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives. In order to use...


Platforms: All

GRUB4DOS can boot off DOS / LINUX, or via Windows boot manager / syslinux / lilo, or from MBR / CD. It also has builtin BIOS disk emulation, ATAPI CDROM driver, etc. GRUB4DOS can be easily run via command-line so you can take it for a test drive to see what it's all about!


Platforms: Windows

Soluto is a great application that allows you to analyze your boot time, view which applications are slowing it down and improve it as you like. Soluto's goal is to bring an end to the frustrations PC users encounter. We have all come to expect our computers to be sluggish or unresponsive at...


Platforms: Windows