Recover data with Linux

“One of the best developments in recent years has been the Live
CD. These offer a fully functional Linux installation that runs
from an optical drive. If you’ve got enough memory, you can even
install new packages to the RAM disk just as you would when
completing a standard installation.

“This makes a recent release of a Live CD-based installer like
Ubuntu Jaunty the perfect system recovery tool. Not only does it
include every package you might require, but because it runs from
the optical drive rather than the hard drive, your data isn’t
touched and there’s no chance files will be overwritten without
direct input. It’s the obvious place to start when you get
stuck.”

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