Originally Posted by
DanDombrowski
Alright guys,
I have a friend that done messed up his PeeCee. Ran Ad-Aware, removed lots of ****, and now when you click the name to log-on at the log on screen, it immediately logs on and then logs back off and brings you back to the screen. It has windows XP, I do not know if it is home or professional edition.
Now, I need to get the data off the drive. Were it a tower, I'd just pull the drive and copy off the contents, but its a laptop. I know that there are many ways to do this, but what do you think the EASIEST way to get the data off the drive is?
My first attempt is going to be to boot into safe mode and try to log on with administrator, but I don't know the password, and chances are he doesn't either.
My second idea is some kind of boot disk that will allow me to read the hard disk and communicate with the network so I can transfer it all off, but I have no idea what boot disk would be the best for this? Any specific version of Linux that will read an NTFS partition and get me on the network?
Should I just try to run a windows recovery installation from the CD? If its Windows XP home, that might be a problem considering I don't have a 'home' disk, only professional.
Anyway, thanks for reading this, and thanks to anyone that responds.