The Ubuntu live CD may automatically see the HD, and give you an icon for it on the desktop. If you have another formatted drive, like for Windows, you should be able to copy everything over to it with drag and drop.

I use Linux every day, Ubuntu in fact, and within the last couple months even used it to recover about a terabyte of data from a failing drive.

I'm headed out for the evening, but if you need any help post here. I, or someone else, should be able to walk you through what ever you need.


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-Chris