Re: recovery

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: recovery
Date	2015-10-28 07:00 +1100
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"Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message 
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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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> You cannot run System Restore by booting from an XP disc.  It is not 
> available.

You can actually, but again, I'm not going to tell you how
to do it because that will fuck the system and isn't the way
to recover the data the owner of the system wants recovered.

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