Having managed to rescue the partition tables of my machine using ‘The Ultimate bot disk’ I could then boot the machine up into windows, however it was so slow all I could do was login, I could not browse drives or copy anything off.
I took the disk out and used a USB to IDE cable and plugged it into my Western Digital My Book World Nas drive which has a USB port on it. I then rebooted it and logged into the Linux operating system on the NAS drive.
I was pleased to see that it had mounted the disk and I could no only browse on command line the file system but open files.
I copied the whole disk onto the NAS Drive which took several hours! due o having over 300GB of data.
My plan now is to format the drive and start a fresh install. I will then create a Samba share of the copy on the NAS drive and I hope I will then be able to copy the required data back across the network to my desktop machine.
Rather a long process, although I would have got their quicker if I had been able to dedicate more time to it.
I was going to go for a dual Windows xp/Ubuntu 8 boot, however, I am going to try out VirtualBox and see if I can get some Linux environments working that way. If not I can always convert the XP install into a dual boot, but this risks tinkering with the dredded partitions again!!!
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