Help recovering information from Windows

[Jason Crain]

On Tue, September 30, 2008 7:01 am, Amanda Farr wrote:
> I brought my laptop to work and connected to our work network and the
> network tried to put our work image on my computer. My laptop is pretty
> screwed up right now. I can't get to Windows at all.
>
> I know I can just buy a windows OS disk and reformat but I want to recover
> the information on my computer. I thought about trying to take the hard
> drive out and putting it into an external case but I've never taken apart
> a
> laptop before and I'm not sure if it would even work.

It's not usually hard to take a hard drive out of a laptop.  You shouldn't
have to take apart the whole thing.  There is probably cover you can
unscrew from the underside.

>
> I read some time ago on Digg that you could use an Ubuntu live cd and
> mount
> the drive but I really have no idea how to do that and would need very
> specific instructions. Does anyone know where I could find instructions
> for
> doing this and recovering my information?
>

This page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery may be able to
help.  It covers a dozen different ways to recover files, but you should
be comfortable with the command line before trying.