Emergency Boot CD
Emergency Boot CD is a powerful toolset to fix unbootable computers and recover data from them. It is a self-contained bootable OS on live CD with the following features:
1) File Manager, which is capable of saving files from local HDD to USB thumbdrive/HDD, and restoring them back if necessary. Supported filesystem types: FAT, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3, ISO9660, UDF and BSD UFS; Unicode is fully supported for all of them. Builtin editor and viewer for text files can handle numerous ANSI/OEM encodings and UTF-8/UTF-16. Removable disks e.g. USB and Firewire are mounted and dismounted automatically, like floppy disks in Windows.
2) Windows Password Wizard, which can be used to restore access to your PC when you forgot the password for Windows user account.
3) Registry Defragmenter, which reorganizes Registry in such way that logically adjacent data is located physically nearby, so Registry of old Windows installations works faster.
4) Registry Editor, which can edit Registry offline of Windows, so you can make changes to Registry even if Windows is broken and unbootable or can't update Registry because of security/ACL restrictions.
If your computer does not have CD/DVD drive, EBCD can boot from USB.