Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:54:49 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:

> Situation: My daughter works for a bank and must use Microsoft to work
> at home.  Yesterday the system would not boot - no safe mode, no
> nothing, just return to loading bios.

(...)

> Is there any chance of recovering usable files before we wipe out her
> hard drive?

I would try with plain copy/paste.

If that also fails, put the disk into external USB case, attach it to 
another windows xp (or later) box and perform there the common file 
system diagnostic tasks (scan disk and defrag).

Greetings,

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Camaleón