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Robbie
My nephew's hard drive on his laptop is on its way out. He can no longer boot into Windows but I can see all his documents using a Linux Live CD (Slax).

Can anyone suggest an easy way that he can rescue all his personal documents (photos, music, other documents) in a quick and easy way? He could email them to himself as I can connect to the internet through the Live disk. Is there any easier way than emailing one picture etc at a time. Is there an easy way to connect to another computer and save everything (about 2.3GB worth of files) in a minimum amount of time? I don't know how to set up a slave drive so an easy suggestion would be welcome. The local computer repair shop is quoting a £50 (about US $75) charge to do this. He doesn't have the money for this as he needs to buy a new hard drive and that will be fairly expensive.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
hazelnut
Robbie does he have a USB thumb drive, preferably a 2 gig one?

He could just send them to there and what was left just email
Robbie
QUOTE (hazelnut @ Jul 21 2009, 04:18 PM) *
Robbie does he have a USB thumb drive, preferably a 2 gig one?

He could just send them to there and what was left just email
I've got one. Thanks for the suggestion hazel.
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