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<font size="+1">Henry is right. But if your old computer fails
because it can't handle the demands of new operating systems,
think again about Linux OSs. After all, we do use and enjoy old
tractors!</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/16/20 7:28 AM, Henry Miller wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">You need an empty USB<span
style="background-color: inherit;"> drive to do anything so it
isn't free. If you have a drive you don't care about and a
working computer, there are hundreds of different Linux
"images" that you download and put on the USB drive that will
boot and let you recover whatever is on the hardrive. Problem
is few people have a USB drive around with nothing on it, and
even if they didn't you are in a catch-22 because you need a
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="background-color:
inherit;">I can't emphasize empty USB enough here, the process
erases whatever was on the drive before.</span><br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="background-color:
inherit;">This is a last resort effort, I urge everybody to
have several copies of all their important files on different
drives, at least some of which are not at your house. There
are online backup programs that work, or you can copy
everything to a USB drive and store the drive at your in-laws.
If you have this, if your computer fails you buy a new one and
continue. This also protects from a virus that can erase your
data. (Sometimes a ransom will get it back, but those who
collect ransoms are evil enough to collect money and not give
you your data back)</span><br>
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<div>On Sun, Feb 16, 2020, at 5:44 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:<br>
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<div>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?<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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at 9:33 AM cgs <<a href="mailto:oxygenfarm@gmail.com"
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<div><span style="font-size:undefinedpx" class="size">Look
at <u><a
href="http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/5-best-data-recovery-tools-for-linux-to-recover-data-or-deleted-partitions"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/5-best-data-recovery-tools-for-linux-to-recover-data-or-deleted-partitions</a></u></span><br>
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<div>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. <br>
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