Live linux cd for a gateway 64- bit/32bit computer

[John Heinen]

Christopher Chan wrote:
>> Sorry Bob and Christopher, i didn't give you all the facts but that is
>> on account of my limited knowledge.
>> The system is Vista 64 bit. We have windows vista and opensuse on the
>> same hard drive. Vista crashed( because the backup section reached it's
>> limit, or so it seems., therefore, I think, I can't get into windows to
>> locate and copy.
>> What I did : I used a Linux mint and qtparted to look at the hard drive.
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>> On the hard drive we have as follows "according to qtparted"
>> partition size used space start end recovery
>> 1 /dev/sda1 ntfs 15.54 gb N/A .o3 mb 15.54 recovery
>> 2 /dev/sda2 nfts 115.55 gb 37 gb 15.54 gb
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>> This indicates that the recovery part is full, my guess is that vista
>> will not work unless there is space for backup.
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> ??? Vista most probably boots off sda2 and does not need anything from 
> sda1...but then who knows what idiotic stuff the manufacturer put in.
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>> (The rest of the drive is filled up with opensuse, linux mint etc)
>> My guess is that if we could increase sda1 to resolve that problem, but
>> how? Vista sda2 sits right smack against it.
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> Do you first see grub on boot up? If not, hit F8 before Vista starts to 
> boot for safe mode or something to find out why Vista won't boot. That's 
> your problem right, Vista won't boot?
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>> You might wonder why bother with this window problem, this is not
>> opensuse, well, when I upgrade suse and it is time to do so, I might
>> lose it all. Appreciate y'all patience John H
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> What do you want to achieve here? Recover Vista or recover files?
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Great and thanks for you patience. Actually almost all the files are on
Ubuntu except our tax files. I can reinstall vista because we have the
disc, but, that would of course erase those files, so the answer is
..recover files John