the vynsane asylum

I WAS TRYING TO RETRIEVE SOME FILES FROM AN OLD COMPUTER THAT HASN'T BEEN USED IN SOMETIME. IT BOOTS UP FINE BUT IT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO CLICK ON ANY ICONS OR OPEN ANY FILES. A FRIEND SAID IT MIGHT BE THAT WINDOWS IS CORRUPTED. I HAVE HEARD OF A SYSTEM CALLED LINUX AND BEEN TOLD THAT IT CAN BE USED TO RETRIEVE FILES FROM THIS COMPUTER. WHEN I CHECKED ON THE LINUX SITE FOR A DOWNLOAD THAT I COULD RUN A DISK I WAS OVERWHELMED. ANY IDEA WHAT TYPE OF DOWNLOAD I COULD USE TO RETRIEVE THESE FILES FROM THE OLD COMPUTER????????????

THANKS

vynsane wrote:the best and easiest thing to do would be to take the hard drive out of that machine and connect it as a slave to a functional computer's hard drive. then you can transfer the files as you would any other linked drive.