From: John Cuccia 

On 3 Jul 2004 21:05:27 -0400, waldo kitty  wrote:

>John Cuccia  wrote in
>news:l8sde0hghnbh8kfvp1u7nnga68o0okvu87{at}4ax.com:
>
>> If you can, install a 2nd instance of the OS and boot to it.  You
>> should then be able to copy data.  After that, wipe. reinstall the
>> OS, and restore the data.
>
>if i can install it... just don't know where to get the install from
>unless the laptop has a hidden OEM install partition on it...

If you don't have installation media then installing a 2nd copy isn't an option.

>i think it'll be faster to get a DOS disk with a NTFS or FTA32 driver on
>it and run GUEST to access an external parallel port 100M ZIP disk and
>just copy their data off ;)

If the disk is FAT32 that shouldn't be a problem.  I've never booted DOS
with an NTFS driver, so have no idea how that works.  Does it bypass NTFS
permissions?

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