It’s a little unfortunate how much we rely on something as unreliable as a computer. There you are, working along, happily doing your thing, and suddenly Windows (or OSX, or Linux, or BEOS, or whatever it is that sits between your hardware and your web browser) pukes up some error and refuses to boot, work, or be otherwise useful.
Fixing the computer itself is just a matter of time and money; getting back those pictures, documents, emails, and other files that you always meant to back-up is another issue. So in this article I’m going to show you a simple way to recover documents from a system that won’t boot.