Rescatux 0.73 supports booting from UEFI Secure Boot and traditional BIOS. Both amd64 and 686 systems are supported.
Rescatux includes Rescapp, a graphical rescue tool that will assist users to regain access to a computer that has become non-bootable among many other features.
GNU/Linux options- Change Gnu/Linux Password : Change a user's password
- File System Check (Forced Fix) : File System Check (Forced Fix)
- Easy GNU/Linux Boot Fix : Fsck partition, update grub menues, restore GRUB into the MBR and order UEFI entries
- Restore Grub : Restore GRUB into the MBR
- Regenerate sudoers file : Define a new sudoers file
- Update Grub Menus : Update GRUB Configuration File
UEFI Boot specific options- UEFI Partition Status : Check UEFI partition status
- Check UEFI Boot : Check if Rescatux has boot in UEFI mode
- Create UEFI Boot Entry : Create a new UEFI Boot entry out of your EFI files
- Change UEFI Boot Order : Change UEFI Boot order
- Reinstall Microsoft Windows UEFI : Reinstall Microsoft Windows UEFI boot entries
- Fake Microsoft Windows UEFI : Fake Microsoft Windows UEFI boot entry
- Hide Microsoft Windows UEFI : Hide Microsoft Windows UEFI boot entry and define default fallback one.
Windows password and role related options- Easy Windows Admin : Promote to Admin, Reset Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven) password and unlock user
- Reset Windows password : Reset Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven,10) password
- Promote Windows user to Admin : Promote Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven,10) user to Administrator
- Unlock Windows user : Unlock Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven,10) user
Other options- Boot Info Script : Boot Information Script
- Check bios_grub partition on GPT : Check if there is a bios_grub partition on a GPT disk
- Gptsync : Create an hybrid MBR inside a GPT partition (Gptsync)
- Recompute Hybrid GPT/MBR CHS : Recompute CHS values on an hybrid GPT/MBR partitiont table
- Restore Windows MBR : Restore generic MBR code so that Windows boots again
- System Info Script (Inxi) : System Info Script (Inxi)
Support features- Chat : Get online human help (chat)
- Help : Help on using Rescapp
- Share log : Share Rescatux logs. It generates a pastebin in paste.debian.net and shows it to you so that you can copy and paste the url in the chat.
- Share log on forum : Share Rescatux logs on a forum. It generates a temporary file ready to copy and paste on your favourite forum (ubuntuforums.org and others).
- Show log : Show Rescatux logs so that you can ask help and supporters can know what happens when you run Rescatux options
- Web : Access online Rescatux website
External toolsNote: These features are just launchers of external tools and are not enforced. If your system does not have them installed they won't work.
- Gparted : GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.
- Testdisk : Testdisk is a text wizard drive program for rescuing disks, partitions, and files.
- Photorec : Photorec is a text wizard drive program for rescuing files. Despite its name it recovers much more files than photo files.