Ways to backup files without XP

[rishid]

Hi,

I am trying to repair a friend's computer and it wont boot up into XP at all. It goes straight into the IBM Repair and Recovery console program. I cannot even figure out how to get it to boot off XP cd, but that is another issue.

Basically I just want to back up his music and documents onto a USB hard drive.

What application can I do this with?

Thanks,

RishiD

[ahfunaki]

There are many ways you could do this...

- Take the hard drive out of the computer, hook it up to yours as a slave.

- Get a USB hard drive enclosure, and hook it up to your computer.

- Get a Linux CD that you can do a live boot with ( where the OS runs off the cd ) and get it off that way.

I'm sure there are more ways to do it, those are just some I can think of off the top of my head...

[rishid]

Suggestions for a Linux Live Boot CD that will do it? Also if it had networking support so I can access windows share that would be ideal.

Thansk

[ahfunaki]

I don't see why you couldn't use a live CD. They can access the hard drives can't they? I could be wrong, I've only used them a couple times.

It's worth a shot though...

And if you can't get the computer to boot, you're not going to be able to access the drive through a network...

[monique]

Attach the drive of your friend as a slave to your computer. Then just transfer all important data to the USB hard drive.

[shthead]

  monique said:

Attach the drive of your friend as a slave to your computer. Then just transfer all important data to the USB hard drive.

Thats one way or get a program like Ghost or Acronis True image and use the live cd to boot the computer and you can ghost the whole harddrive that way incase you miss anything

[SacrificialSoldier]

UBCD4WIN!!!!!

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

or of course there's ERDCommander :)

S2

Edit: They no longer make ERDCommander :(. F^@*in Microsoft bought them! but they still make admin pak

http://www.winternals.com/Products/Adminis...ak/Default.aspx

[tktino]

Here is a really good tool.

It will take time but it worth it.

It searches sectors, not partitions.

GetDataBack - NTFS OR FAT32

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

Boot off a Windows Live cd.

http://www.cnet.com.au/downloads/0,2390303...0583744s,00.htm

I doubt its pirated anything.

[tktino]

UBCD4WIN is also great. Its also a PE Live Cd ready to use

[Pikey]

Freespire is one of the Linux 'live' versions floating around ...

It's free. Nothing to lose. You can run it "live," directly from the CD, without installing anything. This is a great way to test Freespire with your existing hardware. If you then decide to install it, that takes only about 10 minutes.

http://freespire.org/

[SacrificialSoldier]

Checked Freespire out, It ROCKS!

not as good as Admin Pak

but hey Admin pak ain't free

S2