Ways to backup files without XP

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rishid

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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

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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...

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ahfunaki

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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...

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shthead

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  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

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SacrificialSoldier

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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

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tktino

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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.

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Pikey

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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/

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