[AT] OT- Computer help please

[Stephen Offiler]

Hi farmer:  When you say no reason to buy anything, I assume you refer to
that $35 thumb drive device I mentioned.  As I understand it, the thumb
drive is bootable, circumventing the hard drive and whatever OS is on the
machine.  The sales pitch is that it will take a machine that's bricked and
bring it back to life.  Do you have a way to accomplish that for free?

SO


On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 10:39 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> No reason to buy anything, Most distributions of Linux will read Windows
> files. You can copy, paste move etc. and you can download anything for
> free. I don't putter with old stuff as much as I used to but I've used
> Knoppix for such things for many years. I don't know if Windows 10 can read
> Linux files yet or not but I once read that it was soon to be an option. If
> you install Linux as a dual boot with Windows you can just access your
> Windows files without having to reboot back into Windows to find them or
> work with them.
> Half of the Linux learning curve is terminology... If you have become
> comfortable using Android you are half way there. Android is just a mobile
> (and tablet) version of Linux. Android is built on and running the Linux
> Kernel but your desktop box won't run Android.
>
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> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 9:33 AM cgs <oxygenfarm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Look at *http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/5-best-data-recovery-tools-for-linux-to-recover-data-or-deleted-partitions
>> <http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/5-best-data-recovery-tools-for-linux-to-recover-data-or-deleted-partitions>*
>>
>> On 2/15/20 7:12 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
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>> Good to hear it's all set.  I've been seeing ad's for a device called
>> "XtraPC" which, it turns out, is some flavor of Linux burned onto a thumb
>> drive for something like $35.  You can bring back most troublesome old
>> machines from the grave (assuming the problem is hard drive/boot software,
>> not some hardware failure of course).  What I do not know is whether you
>> can access your Windows files under Linux.  Curious about that.
>>
>> SO
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