From my last post about how to rescue your system with Hirens BootCD. It’s specially to recover Windows system. Even it can restore your hard drive but it cannot restore your Linux system.
If you are using Linux and your system crashed, you can use SystemRescueCD. It’s a small Linux distro with many recovery tools provided. And of course it is free. You can visit their official website here.
Not like Hiren’s BootCD, SystemRescueCD is only 200MB, you can make it boot from a flash drive with UnetBootin. I will release a tutorial on how to make SystemRescueCD boot from a flash drive.
You can download SystemRescueCD from this link: SystemRescueCD Download
So can SystemRescueCD recover my files from a Windows system? Of course it can, it can also recover your partition. But it takes time to learn all the recovery tools, but if you are a *nix user, I’m sure you won’t have a problem using Linux SystemRescueCD.