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Originally Posted by Decadence
sorry for bringing this thread back to life, but...when you say ubuntu boots off a cd...can i burn it to a cd, run it, take it out and use windows like normal or does it save it onto the hdd? I would like to keep windows but get ubuntu just to learn about linux. I know nothing about linux and i don't think i have the windows installation disks so if i can't get back into windows im SCREWED! So please help me on my magical journey into linux.
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An easier version would be a Live distro over one that installs to the drive. In fact the highly recommended distro for retrieving data off of an MS OSed drive when it has become unbootable is the Knoppix Live for dvd originally that offers a few updated cd iso images free of charge at
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html (looks like a home page) and
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html is a long list of download mirrors. Note when scrolling down a download page the most recent dates are seen instead of the latest at the top.
Look for a 699mb iso for April 2006. Then take NERO, Roxio's Easy Media Creator, or another program that writes iso images and burn to an 80min. cd-r. That's all it takes. You simply boot from the cd after.
