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Recovering files

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I got 2 partitions on laptop: linux and windows. Windows, as usual, crashed on me today in the morning. Blue screen of death. I have most of the stuff backed up, but there are couple of files i didnt have time to back up.

Can i use linux to get them or are there other solutions to this problem?
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Post by Nerdz »

Yes you can use linux to retrieve them. Have you try starting windows in safe mode? It happened to me on one of my comp and it was due to sp2...

Try to remember what are the last things you've installed.

What is your linux distro so we can help you a bit further?
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Nerdz wrote:What is your linux distro so we can help you a bit further?
That shouldn't matter. What you need is a driver for the partition format your Windows stuff is on. If it's FAT32, you need a FAT32 driver, if it's NTFS, you need an NTFS driver. Google it.

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get Puppy Linux, it's the live distro I am using for recovery issues, NTFS-support is already on board... :wink:
http://www.puppylinux.org

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