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SystemRescue v13.01
Formerly known as SystemRescueCd

👉 Bootable Linux rescue toolkit for repairing systems, recovering data, and performing disk administration tasks.

SystemRescue is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It is designed to help with tasks such as creating and editing hard disk partitions, recovering files, working with important file systems, and using a wide range of system utilities from a live environment. It can be used on both Linux and Windows computers, on desktops as well as servers, and it can be booted from a DVD or USB stick, or installed on a hard disk if needed.




Features:
• Boots as a live rescue environment from CD/DVD, USB, or local disk
• Includes disk and partitioning tools for administration and recovery tasks
• Provides utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, file system tools, editors, Midnight Commander, and network tools
• Supports important file systems including ext4, xfs, btrfs, vfat, and ntfs, plus network filesystems such as Samba and NFS
• Can be used on both Linux and Windows computers, including desktops and servers
• Supports configurable keyboard layouts with the setkmap option and command
• Can copy the live system fully into memory for improved responsiveness using copytoram
• Includes scripting support with Bash, Perl, Python, and Ruby
• Includes Firefox with bookmark configuration support through SystemRescue configuration files

Supported operating systems:
• Linux, Windows

Supported languages:
• English

Changes:
v13.01 06-06-26
Updated the kernel to the Long-Term-Supported linux-6.18.34
Updated bcachefs tools and kernel module to version 1.38.3
Add ‘checksum’ to the boot options to check integrity when ‘copytoram’ is used
Added packages: reflector + b3sum





Recommended USB installation method on Windows
• Download SystemRescue
• Download Rufus and install it on Windows
• Plug in your USB-stick and wait a few seconds to allow enough time for the system to detect it
• Execute Rufus and select the USB stick in the drop-down list
• Select the SystemRescue ISO image that you have downloaded
• Select ‘MBR’ partition scheme as it will be compatible with both BIOS and UEFI
• Select ‘BIOS or UEFI’ in target to get the best compatibility
• Check the ‘volume label’ is correct as it must be set to RESCUEXYZ (cf below)
• Select FAT32 filesystem as the UEFI boot process only works from FAT filesystems
• Click on the start button and wait until the operation is complete

In the previous steps RESCUEXYZ refers to the version number, eg: RESCUE906 for SystemRescue-9.06. Rufus should automatically use the label which was set on the ISO filesystem and hence it should set this label automatically on the USB device. You should not have to change it but you should make sure the label is correct as this is required for the device to start properly. What matters is that the label matches the value passed to the archisolabel boot option in the boot loader configuration files on the device (grubsrcd.cfg and sysresccd_sys.cfg) so files can be found at the time the system starts from the USB device.

When using rufus this way, a USB memory stick with a writable filesystem is created. This allows you to easily copy for example autorun scripts or YAML config files onto the USB stick with a regular file manager.

Recommended USB installation method on Linux
If you are running Linux on your computer it is very easy to install SystemRescue on a USB stick. It will produce an USB stick which is bootable with both a Legacy BIOS and in UEFI node.

This approach is easy to use from a Linux system and it requires the dd command to copy the ISO image file to the USB device. Make sure you use the right device with dd as the operation is destructive if you write to the wrong device.
• Download the latest SystemRescue ISO image
• Mark it as executable with chmod 755 sysrescueusbwriter-x86_64.AppImage
• Run it ./sysrescueusbwriter-x86_64.AppImage [OPTIONS] <ISO-FILE>
• It will show viable USB devices to select from
• If you don’t have enough permissions to write to the USB media, it will try sudo, pkexec and su





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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
11,287 42,517 SystemRescueCd Jul 05, 2026 - 13:36 13.01 1.26GB ISO 5/5, out of 81 Votes.
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