Bootable, multi-architecture imaging software with error correction

Bootable, multi-architecture imaging software with error correction I do a lot of tech support for family and friends (and of course their friends) on the side and I am looking for software with the following characteristics:
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"ddrescue was built for this and fulfills the requirements, but not all by itself. You can get it as part of the SystemRescueCD, which is a bootable CD that contains this tool and many other system rescue tools.

The CD is available for i486/amd64, SPARC, and PPC. If you don't want to use a CD, there are instructions available for installing to a USB stick.

In case of read errors, it will try it's best to rescue the data rather than just choking:

ddrescue is a raw disk imaging tool
that ""copies data from one file or
block device to another, trying hard
to rescue data in case of read
errors."" The application is developed
as part of the GNU project and has
written with UNIX/Linux in mind."