OT - recovering files with Linux

[P. J. Alling]

I does doesn't it.

Mark Roberts wrote:
> Scott Loveless wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> Sounds like a hard drive going south
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