From: waldo kitty 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in
news:40e6c074$1{at}w3.nls.net:

> It's a holiday and I'm headed out, so my answers will be sketchy, but
> here's what I'd do:
>
> First choice, remove HD, set as slave with adaptor in a desktop Win
> PC that can read NTFS5.  Piece of cake, if the HD is physically good
> (and trojan-free).  Hint - some recent laptop HDs are cable-select
> only.  You'll need a machine, a system drive and a ribbon cable that
> can do this.
>
> Second choice: Bart's PE boot CD, a several-hours' project to create
> a limited boot environment that reads NTFS, virus scans with a
> commandline McAfee, file-management with a Norton Commander
> super-clone, etc.  Network support is typically a big PITA unless
> your NIC is super-common.
>
> Then there are the Ultimate Boot CD, the various one-CD Linux-en,
> etc.

i'm also considering these options... the main thing is that i don't have
anything more than just the laptop as that is all they have to give...

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