[Klug-general] Thank You Rene

[David Halliday]

This sort of technique has saved my life (OK, slight exaggeration) many
times.

Often I have used a distribution like Knoppix, DSL (although this is not so
much maintained any more) and RIP (Recovery Is Possible)
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

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.

On 6 July 2011 12:42, Stephen Ryan <intrench at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> This is what I found.
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/
>
> So basically, I created a Ubuntu boot CD and was able to recover the files.
>
> No big deal you say! Well it was for me :)
>
> Cheers again Rene
>
> Stephen
>
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