You should boot with a LiveCD such as Ubuntu Linux. That will mount the
internal drive and a USB drive. You should be able to copy files that way.
Or, you could try to fix wifey's machine, or at least get it bootable.
Then you could use Windows' migration tools to save the data.
Chris
On 10/07/2011 12:33 PM, Jeffrey Race wrote:
I have purchased (at MIT Swap Meet :) WXP Pro
CD and plan to install over WXP Home (which
has crashed 'unable to recover hive' or some
such thing) on wifie's Acer. If I install
from CD on C:, will I lose wifie's data, or
will that remain?
Also, is there a way I can boot from the
WXP CD before the install, so as to xcopy
all her data files over to a thumb drive,
before the install? (Just in case some
thing goes wrong.) Or can I boot from a
W2K disk? (Will that read NTFS?)
Although I don't enjoy this, I welcome the
practice because one day one of my TPs will
crash too
Tks for all help
Jeffrey Race
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