Hi Jim, I've been thru' this before.

The easiest way out is to connect ur notebook to a desktop thru' a =
simple laplink cable (I can give u the connections), run something very =
basic like laplink (DOS) on both the systems, and transfer all the files =
u want to salvage

Regards,

Anand

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