OT - recovering files with Linux

[P. J. Alling]

No I don't think you mentioned that, or maybe I was dozing...

Scott Loveless wrote:
> Last night the laptop shot itself in the foot.  I'm surfing along, 
> reading my mail, whatever, and explorer crashed.  Then my other apps 
> started shutting down.  Then windows tells me that it's encountered a 
> critical error and must shut down.  Now it won't boot.  At all.  Safe 
> mode doesn't work either.  Compaq was nice enough to install a few 
> recovery utilities on a separate partition.  No luck.  Seems the only 
> option I have is restoring the laptop to its original condition.  20 GB 
> of photos and other files are located on that machine.  At least 6GB 
> from GFM.  I really didn't want to lose this stuff.  I hate Vista.
>
> So I burned an Ubuntu Live CD, booted the laptop with it and installed 
> Samba.  It's running now, sending my files over the network to another 
> PC.  God, I hate Vista.  I'm just glad this happened here and not on the 
> mountain.
>
> Have I mentioned that I'm not fond of Vista?
>
>   


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