=?Utf-8?B?cmJyeWFu?= wrote in
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Any help, as specific and dumbed-down as possible, would be greatly
appreciated. My computer has been useless for a week now, and I fear
I’ll never again see the pictures of my newborn that I recently
downloaded into the digital camera software on my computer. Thank you
in advance for any assistance.


Do you have a CD burner in the system, or access to a network drive, or an
USB thumb? In that case you can use Knoppix to safe your photos. Get a
Knoppix CD, and boot from it. There's a program K3B to burn CD's.

Knoppix is a Linux distro, which boots from CD, without touching the
harddisk. You can download it at www.knoppix.org but it's often found as
cover CD at a computer magazine.