[Equinox]

Well, in an ideal situation. I would like to continue working windows from my old 120GB HDD, exactly like i was using before. But since that isnt possible. So i wanna retreive as much data as i can, so that when i do a new windows xp installation, it won't take me ages to get back to the same state as it was before the accident. The thing is that i heavily customize my windows. With themes and desktop widgets and docks and IMs, and a buncha software, cuz i multitask alot. So starting from a clean winxp will take atleast a week just to get somewhere around the feel of how it used to be.

Good thing is, i found out what was the problem, was fairly simple problem, the 120GB as Primary slave was not being recognized at its full capacity by the new motherboard. When i changed it back to Primary Master, and booted from MaxBlast5, it showed me that i could back up all the partitions. Problem with that is, that either i backup the entire 120GB HDD exactly as it is, including partitions and everything, OR, i can make "image backups" of selected partitions. Im not sure exactly how either of them are gonna work, but it sounds kinda weird, and the image files are supposed to be .tib extensioned. Never heard of that before.

So now im looking for some software/disc to boot from, which will easily let me transfer my data, as folders or even files, to my external HDD. Preferably i would really like if i could find a bootable version of GetDAtaBack. Any advice will be appreciated.

PS. I'm not that good with linux, so recommending live cds might not be a good idea. I have ubuntu drapper and knoppix, whoppix/slax live discs, but i know i'll be lost working with them.