So I was working on a customers computer the other day trying to recover all her pictures and music, tried all my resources but there was no conventional way to extract the data and burn it to disk since my wife had my laptop and gear in her car lol (thanks babe).
All I had as far as software was the usual recovery tools and a copy of Linux Mint 7 I had just burned for a friend. So I popped in the Mint Live CD and installed it without partitioning skipped that part of the install.
Low and behold I saved all the customers precious data and got a hefty Tip for my good deed : )

You can use any version of Linux to do this, Mint or Ubuntu are good Linux transitional Distro's for Windows users.


http://www.linuxmint.com/
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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