Another good alternative is using a network boot disk. Check out http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ for pretty much all you'll need to boot up and connect to the network to copy files. I've used this method in the pat in exactly your friends situation. It worked like a champ.
Regards,
Justin
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