How to backing up using Linux OS

This is a guide on how to do backups from inaccessible harddrives and partitions.
Before you continue I want you to know that this is not 100% guaranteed to work.
But from experience I can tell you it works in 80% of the cases I have come across.

You will need the following.
A bootable linux cd/dvd.
A 2nd harddrive or external harddrive/usb memory.

I recommend Knoppix due to it being so user-friendly.

I will continue with the guide step by step so that everyone will understand it as easy as possible.

Step One.
Insert the Linux cd/dvd in your cd/dvd rom and reboot your system so that you are prompted to boot to the cd/dvd.
Hit enter as instructed and the boot process will commence.
The boot process can take 2-10 minutes depending on your system and the read speed of your cd/dvd rom.

Step Two.
When you first enter you will have a welcome window pop up, Just close it, It will be in the way for what we’re gonna do.
You should have the desktop right in front of you, Not very different from Windows when you think about it.
Instead of "Start" (Windows XP) or the Crystal Ball (Windows Vista) you have a K.

Now depending on your system setup you should see your harddrive or your partitions on the desktop.
However they aren’t known as C, D, E etc as they are in windows.
Instead they are named as hda1, hda2, sda1 and so on.

Just click on them on at a time till you find the disk you wish to grab data from.

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Step Three.
The rest is the same as in Windows.
You right click the file or folder you wish to copy and chose COPY.

Browse your way to the working partition/harddrive and right click, Chose the option to PASTE.
If the error I previously mentioned appears you need to do the ntfsfix command again and this time do it on both the harddrive/partition you’re extracting from and the harddrive/partition you’re copying the data to.

Once you get a hang of this process you will probably be as hooked to it as I am.
Why? Because it’s simple and has a high rate of working.