Re: XP SP3 update catastrophe - data recovery possible?

Bryce wrote:

A safe way to procede: get a (free) live-CD of some flavor of Linux.
You can boot it from the CD drive and use it to explore the hard
drive(s) and copy data files to removable media (CDRW, pen drive,
etc)

That is an excellent idea, thanks.
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