This sort of technique has saved my life (OK, slight exaggeration) many times.<div><br></div><div>Often I have used a distribution like Knoppix, DSL (although this is not so much maintained any more) and RIP (Recovery Is Possible) <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/">http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Best thing I have found is to copy the files to another machine on the network and then go out and buy an external HDD to backup files onto for the inevitable day that the HDD in your machine dies taking with it all the files.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2011 12:42, Stephen Ryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:intrench@googlemail.com">intrench@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Yesterday my son's Vista laptop went belly up and wouldn't boot. Whatever we tried to get it booting didn't work so we forced into having to reinstall Vista. But he had loads of music files and ordinarily I wouldn't have been able to get to them. But because of my training on Saturday at Rene's place I started looking to Ubuntu for answers.<div>
<br></div><div>This is what I found.</div><div><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/" target="_blank">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>So basically, I created a Ubuntu boot CD and was able to recover the files.</div><div><br></div><div>No big deal you say! Well it was for me :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers again Rene</div><div><br>
</div><div>Stephen</div>
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