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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
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!)
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It's save me several hard drives boot failures. I use a Ubuntu Live CD though as my USB ports have my drives in them.
You do have to type in some commands though to mount the drive.
Linux is like greek to me but I can at least save my data!