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Originally Posted by Blossom
Oh Gosh I wish I was there to fix it for you.  Do you have an external drive? You can use a Ubuntu CD to boot from and copy your files to your External Drive so you don't lose anything. |
This saved my butt last year when a storm knocked out something critical on my laptop hard drive and it wouldn't boot up, safe mode or normal. I put Linux on a thumb drive (I'm pretty sure I did it via a thumb drive, not a CD, but not 100%) and was able to save everything that was important to me.
I assumed my laptop was dead...and was hearing bad things about Windows 8 (that was due to be released in just a few months), so I went ahead and bought a new laptop. Then I took a chance and reimaged the old laptop with my original Repair Disk and it's running fine...I gave it to my Dad's wife, who's been using it since December!
Anyway, being able to use another OS to boot in and get my stuff was wonderful (and why I finally decided to start putting at least *some* stuff in Dropbox!)