How can I save my data before reinstalling vista

[Tara Roper-Washington]

My hard drive went crazy (emachine) I would like to recover my data before
they change out my hard drive again. when I boot up it gives me two choices
bios setting and F10 to boot. I can not access safe mode to backup and I
dont have a bootable cd. I do have another computer with vista to make a
bootable cd if I knew what files to copy. Is there anyway I can save my data
before trying to reinstall or send it back to gateway for another hard drive

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

If the hard drive isn't damaged - and it may be - then remove it from the
machine and slave it into the working one. Copy off data using that
installation, then replace the drive before shipping for repairs.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[GrahamH]

As suggested try reading the drive from another machine.
Or maybe download Bart pe builder and create a boot cd.
There was i believe also a linux system rescue boot cd which is on this site
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
Hope that helps.
Its always a good idea to create a partiton on your hard drive and use that
for all your data, or even better a second hard drive and then backup to an
external drive or media.
Good luck.
Graham....

 

[Mick Murphy]

If other suggestions fail try this.

http://www.knoppix.net/

Download the ISO file, and make a bootable Live CD from it.
Boot your failed computer from it(it does not use your failed drive), and
copy your Data to a memory stick/flash drive
Change the permissions on the flash drive from Read Only

 

[Tara Roper-Washington]

-- Thanks for the information. Please hit me at my email
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Help Please?????

 

[Tara Roper-Washington]

All you guys that responsed were great help if possible hit me at my email
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