I have used Puppy to rescue data from messed up hard drives. When someone calls for help it is good to show up with the puppy disk and a very large memory stick. You can save their important files onto the stick.looseSCREWorTWO wrote:Another way to promote Puppy Linux to WinDOZE users is to go on PC online discussion forums where people are "pulling their hair out" cos XP has crashed or Windows 98 has a virus, or whatever, and put forward the idea of using Puppy Linux as a Rescue Disk. Often these folk are speechless when told they'll be able to access their trashed Hard Drive and save their data, or wipe the HD clean with Gparted prior to re-installing WinDOZE.
If the disk is showing mechanical problems, you can use gparted to copy its contents into a partition on a new bigger hard disk. This can be the "D" drive in the future.
There are now a few WinXP machines in the world with a partition with Puppy and grub. This way, hopefully the person won't even need to hunt for the CD the next time XP mungs its self.