Re: Windows/Macro Language Info?

> I was eventually able to get most of the data off of it (by booting
off a
> CD-ROM into Windows PE - which is something every Windows user
> ought to have,

Some have used a Knoppix CD to boot a machine with a broken Windows
drive as Knoppix will mount FAT32 and NTFS partitions and will cater
for copying any usable files off to, say, a USB drive. Several other
distros will do much the same.

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