Lets face it, the problem above is a very common one.
You have a machine that is your life and soul, as mine
is. Suddenly one morning it refuses to boot. One of
the most common reasons for this is a corruption of
the Windows registry, the most heavily accessed part
of your file system.
How do you recover the many files and other settings
like your favorites? The various options of Windows
itself, like recovery mode, will not work. Not unless
you are some kind of bit-level genius with metal-level
knowledge of ethernet and usb.
There is something called Knoppix, a Linux which
runs from cd. I have tried it and it is very very
difficult for non-Linux-geeks. Also, the ISO file
which you need to download and burn to create the
Knoppix system is a pain. It gets corrupted, and
whether your boot cd will work or not is a toss-up.
Welcome to the great Bart! This gent has been in
the business of creating boot freeware from the
DOS days. But now he has come up with arguably a
masterpiece - Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE)
bootable live windows CD/DVD.
I will not delve into this at great length. Suffice
to say that normal humans can do this very easily
by spending about 10 minutes reading his instructions.
You will soon be able to boot your machine, and it
will come up with a familiar Windows graphical
environment with USB and net support. Just copy those
files off to wherever or whatever you want and say
thanks to Bart!
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