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Guy Hart-Davis

"CNET Do-It-Yourself PC Upgrade Projects"

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Sometimes Windows disagrees with itself??”badly. Or with your PC??™s hardware.
Or with its horoscope. Or maybe it gets a virus, Trojan horse, or other malware.
Or your antivirus program decides it simply doesn??™t like you anymore. When
one of these problems happens, you may find that you can no longer start Windows
as usual. That means you can??™t access any of your files??”your documents??¦your pictures??¦
your videos??¦not even your e-mail messages.
To get Windows working again, you may need to repair it or reinstall it in a different
folder. That can bring problems of its own, because you may not be able to access
the files within your user account. So before you mess with your PC, you should make
a copy of all the files you value so that they??™re safe even if the problems Windows is
suffering turn out to be really bad.
This project shows you how to use Knoppix to copy those files to the safety of
either a USB key or USB drive or a network drive. The project also shows you how to
connect to the Internet so that you can download Windows updates, drivers, or other
files you need to fix Windows.
Your copy of Windows may never suffer a disaster such as those described in this project??”or it
may suffer such a disaster tomorrow. To be prepared for such a disaster, read this project today
and work through Steps 2 and 3, which show you how to get Knoppix, burn it to CD, and then run
it.


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