Quote:
For other forms of diagnostics and data recovery in a situation like this, for instance if your windows install on that hard disk is toast and you need to recover the data, you can't beat bart's PE.

I would definately second that!! I was asked to help fix a computer belonging to my boss's friend's mother (don't ya just love it!) and it was pretty much the only way I was able to get in to poke around. I was able to save it by copying over the registry files from a restore point.

Gareth