Re: Disk Drive Recovery -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Disk Drive Recovery
From: Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:33:26 -0400
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On 3-Sep-08, at 1:00 PM, pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Knoppix can be handy in such cases. The boot is from the Knoppix CD.

I agree - when a windows update managed to completely roast my PC's ability to boot Knoppix came to the resue. It could read the drive even when Windows wouldn't do a thing.

I have also used Ubuntu (my current favorite) for the same thing.

Jon Paris

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