# IT Help Needed. **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 10, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-help-needed/192970 "2007-10-10T17:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-help-needed/192970/8 "2007-10-11T06:13:07Z")
> [@How does one measure wealth](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-does-one-measure-wealth/32801/60): > > Plug them into another computer and boot to a Knoppix Linux Distro. You should be able to access the files through Linux and make a backup from there. why would he boot knoppix when he can just boot bartsPE? all you do with barts is put the drivers files in a folder and burn the disk… this isn’t a desktop with IDE drives… it’s much more logical to use a barts or winpe disk… like 10000times more logical. have you ever booted knoppix and installed raid drivers, not even to mention finding the appropriate raid driver for linux? why go through the hassle just to recover windows data anyway… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-help-needed/192970)._