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by mastermom3

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I have a dell... window xp operating system. windows wont load. i bought a software called fix it utilities which i can only open it when i boot from the cd drive. i can see all my files when i use this software but i couldn't see them when i booted from my hard drive. My question is...how do i make a back up off certain files that i need if my only drive is a cd drive?

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by scott_heath

I'm not familair with Fix It. does it recognize USB Drives, CD Burners, or Netwok Drives? If not you'll need to put in a 2nd HD to copy the data on to.

by w2ktechman

for the fix it utils. There should be a way to move files, or copy files to another media.

If not, maybe boot to a Linux live distro. Then you should be able to copy/save to a cd/dvd/flash drive or external hdd.

by tintoman

Some types of imaging software such as Norton Ghost will allow you to boot the machine with USB support then you can copy your files to a pen drive or external hard drive, I know you said your only drive is the CD drive but I'm not sure if there is any software that will support CD writing in rescue mode.
You might also like to try starting the machine again from the hard drive by disabling the reboot on error feature of windows, if you want more info on that please post again

by ants

Like the other guys said, USB drives will more than likely work with this. One thing to note is, as these discs are often built upon the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE), you have to plug in the USB drives before you start. There's no auto-detect of hardware once it starts up.

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