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A CD used to be the standard for a repair kit, but I think that a USB drive may be more effective.

• Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. Includes Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, Clonezilla, etc. (even BackTrack). Very easy to use to create current bootable USB with alternate operating system.
• Clonezilla is my first choice for cloning and replacing the primary boot disk (which has been failing gradually, saved only by SpinRite, over the past few months. About 6 years old). Using 1.2.8-46 stable from 5-24-2011.
• Test Puppy Linux as a quick boot, lite OS. http://puppylinux.org or http://www.puppylinux.com/index.html

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