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Ok I looked up that error and it looks like the ISO that you burned to your CD somehow got corrupted. What file did you use to burn the CD? where did you download it from?
 
This should help you find the correct drive if it can be accessed.

salvage-this said:
EDIT: a bit more information on accessing the drive.

In Ubuntu there is a top menu that has Applications Places and System. Places will have all of your files and folders in it. A bit down the list there should be a drive that is labeled with a bunch of letters and numbers. Mine is something like 0082E6AF82EE6A7. That is your hard drive

Since the drive is not being recognized by windows you may need to boot the Live CD a few times to get it mounted correctly. I think I tried 3 or 4 times before I got it when I did recovery for a friend.

If the drive mounts correctly and you can access the data on the drive you should be able to get to your files and transfer them off. (this all depends on the drive cooperating with you)

In order to get to your files you need to go through your folders and find the folders that hold your files. I have a windows 7 system that I access so for me I can get to the folders by going through (hard drive)/Users/My User name (yours will be different). The "/" between the different files indicate different folders that I went into to get to the next folder.

*NOTE* The path that I used to get into my files were for my Windows 7 system. Windows Vista and XP may have a different path that you will need to use but the concept will still be the same.

Once you access your folder that is labeled with your user name you should see your documents, music, pictures, desktop, downloads folders along with a lot of others that are of no importance to you for data recovery. When you go into the folders (like Documents) all of your files will be there for you to take to another location. Just copy and paste to the new drive. :D

The transfer may take a while being that the drive is barely working if at all.

If the drive no longer reads or un mounts itself it may be a good idea to give it a break and let it cool for a while. While I was doing this every day or so I had to turn it off for a night and get it remounted in the morning.

I hope this works! It would be great to see all of the data get rescued. Good Luck and as always, if your have any questions I will be more than happy to explain any of the steps in better detail.
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EDIT: Good to see you get it up and booing with the live cd.
 
No luck yet. Let me know if I'm doing this right. Inaccessible hard drive connected via USB, turned on, then I turn on the computer with Ubuntu CD and let it boot. Under the "places" menu, I have, Home folder, Desktop... and a 80GB Filesytem is listed, but no other listings with appears as the example, 0082E6AF82EE6A7 you gave. I tried rebooting several times and still have the same result. Any other ideas, or things I can try? Thanks
 
Can you explain how you have it setup? From what I understand, it looks like this:

you have a fully functioning computer that has an external drive that is giving you problems.

If that is the case then I would think that the 80GB Filesystem might be what you need. Take a look in that drive and tell me what you find. Somehow I got it backwards in my head that you were looking to rescue data on your regular boot drive.

If the 80GB Drive is not the correct drive then I would try one more thing:

Take the drive out of the external casing and install it into your computer as an extra drive. Boot Ubuntu and try the same steps. there is a chance that you will not get it to recognize from the USB port but it will work from the SATA Port.
 
I have an external 500GB drive that is giving me problems. I put the boot disk in a fully functioning laptop with the external drive plugged into the USB. The 80GB drive must be the laptop drive.

Ok, I can try putting the drive in a SATA port next.
 
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