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| Posted: 09:37am 27 Feb 2022 |
I've used a USB stick of Puppy Linux as a rescue device a few times. You can even use it on a borrowed PC and leave no trace as the USB stick can also be your storage. :) The only requirement is that the machine is capable of booting from USB. It doesn't matter if the HDD is scrambled as you don't need to use it. You can still read, write, modify just about anything on the HDD even if windows can't even see it. You can also change file permissions. While running Puppy you can even go online, providing the hardware is working, to look for help.
It's a general purpose little OS. And it has a nice desktop. :)