mar5hy Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Morning all I have a machine which I'm sorting out, full of bugs before I began. At present it goes past the windows stage and sort of halts after that with some malware bug error which is in the registry, I have run a repair which the xp dsik - I was just going to go ahead and wipe it clean and format the partition with a fresh copy of windows xp, but the user wants some data off the machine, what’s the best thing to do to restore the data from the hd before I go ahead and wipe it clean? cheers
Geoff Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Slave the HDD in another machine and copy the data off. If you don't have another machine spare, then use a Linux boot CD and an external USB HDD.
EduTech Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 yea what geoiff said.. i use the linux cd most of the time. does the job no problem Regards James
mar5hy Posted January 11, 2008 Author Posted January 11, 2008 yea what geoiff said.. i use the linux cd most of the time. does the job no problem Regards James When using Linux, are you just running the operating system to recover? Hows it done?
Geoff Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 I use systemrescuecd. http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page Just boot off the CD and away you go.
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