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"Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message 
news:n0nb4v$46k$2@speranza.aioe.org...
> Max <max@val.morgan> wrote:
>>
>> "Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message
>> news:n0n1pj$k04$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> If someone says their computer has stopped working and they want me to
>>> recover their Outlook Express address book, photos & documents, what is
>>> the best course of action to take?
>>
>> How do access a recovery console on an XP system?
>>
>> With Win 7 you can boot from a repair disc, but what about XP?
>
> Boot from the installation disc.

That isn't the way to do it.

> You're best off making an image of the HDD first using a live CD
> Linux distro, or another computer with the HDD in a USB adapter.
> Then you can try to fix the OS or recover the data without risk of
> making a mess if you or a recovery program does something wrong.

> Ideally you should perform any recovery operations on a copy of
> the image of the HDD instead of the drive itself, then write
> the fixed image to the HDD when you've checked that everything
> is working.

> Of course you haven't given enough information about the problem
> to allow me to judge the relevance of the above suggestions. I'm
> assuming either data corruption, or some OS issue (which might
> be fixed by restoring one of XP's restore points). In both cases,
> making a HDD image would be a good idea.
 

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