TSGL: Rescue data

[Don Penlington]

Ian wrote:
>Have you thought of just taking the drive out and putting it in another
>working machine as a slave? That or have you tried
>ubuntu>>


Yes, but I was looking for an easier solution. One I could do on the spot.

Alan's idea of running Ubuntu from a thumb drive might work I suppose.

But I have my doubts because

(a) will an old bios recognise a USB thumb drive as a boot drive? (probably 
not) and

(b) the instructions for creating it look so complicated it's hardly worth 
the bother---and is highly likely to go wrong in any event. I usually find 
the more complex the procedure, the less likely it will work (or the 
tutorial will likely miss some vital point or be ambiguous in some small 
but vital detail). In any event. it looks like it has to be created on the 
computer on which you intend to use it---and that requires access to XP, 
which defeats the purpose. Moreover, I'd have to learn Ubuntu, which I have 
no intention of doing.

Thanks Alan, but I think I'll leave that one to those of you at the cutting 
edge.

It might work though if Ubuntu comes on a bootable CD. (But I'd still have 
to learn it).

Don Penlington


 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
Computer tutorials, local scenery,  and other things at my website:
http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html