The BootMed Live CD is an Ubuntu Remix for those new to Linux. It's main goal is to help the average Windows user to recover a computer that will not boot. BootMed can help you remove viruses from a computer that will not boot, recover deleted files and partitions. It will also guide you through imaging a damaged drive and also shows you how to create a virtual computer out of a physical computer. All of the BootMed tutorials are written in plain language that the average computer user can understand. The first thing you need to know about BootMed is that it is a live cd. A live cd is basically a boot disk on a cd. You put BootMed cd in your computer, turn it on, and the computer will load an operating system from the cd. The operating system on the cd is completely independent of your hard drive, meaning that it will boot up even if Windows cannot. BootMed comes with antivirus programs, ddrescue, Foremost, GParted, NTFSProgs, PhotoRec, Scalpel, Stinger, TestDisk, etc. Go to http://www.bootmed.com for more info.
So far I've recommended this program to three different people, none "experts". And each time they've successfully guided themselves through the process and recovered their badly damaged computers.
That's a good enough recommendation for me!
Cons
Its a very big download.
Summary
Good but dangerus if your not care full
lopy210
Pros
I had this for over a year but was not able to use it until now.USED the boot med 64 on the window 7 64bit and found three virus.one was a trogon that avg witch i was using for about a year.then 02/26/2012 i got webroot full secrity hopping to finely get rid of the problem's.well i ended up reinstalling windows7 because those dam bug's managed to change windows so most it didn't look like windows.tried wiping every thing with no luck then i rememberd i had boot med 64.
Cons
The only problem was some of the tool's no info exsept for a web page O Well.I just did not want to take to much of a chance losing every thing agen.
Summary
Some of the tool's can do more damage that good if you don't know what your doing.On the other hand the virus tools help alot i seen a big differnt's after i fixxed the boot manager on my own and got windows7 running BIG BIG BIG DIFFERNT'S.Now i'm going to try boot med 32 for my other two computer's