Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Boot disk/liveCD for Windows recovery?
Andy Random wrote: >
> Hi,
>
> I generally try to stay away from supporting friends computer systems
> but there are a few that I end up helping anyway...
>
> So if i have a corrupt/virus infested M$ Windows machine and I want to
> recover data from it what do people suggest?
>
> I seem to recall there are live CDs designed for this very job which
> let you run virus checkers (AVG?) and the like from the CD?
>
> Is it worth using one or am I better off just booting Ubuntu and using
> that to copy files off the HD?
>
> Andy
>
