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I have upgraded my sister-in-law's Toshiba Satellite Pro L450D-12X but it failed. It only showed the wallpaper and Panel and Launcher had disappeared. I thought I use the Boot-repair-disk from Sourceforge but that did not see the hard-drive it only messed up Grub. I'd now like to rescue the files on the laptop and do a clean install.. How do I get them off the laptop in its current Not Working state....

She has got 30 GB of family photos on there... Am a bit lost now...

Update: I took out the HDD and fitted it in a external HDD casing, plugged it in my own Ubuntu laptop and it only showed some root files... Do I need to go into terminal to try to unlock the file system.... I've got the root password for the disk :-)

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OK! Michael's comment was answer too, actually. And it is really useful... One of ways to do is just remove hard drive from that computer and connect it to other computer- than copy all files to that other computer.

My future reccomendation: Use USB Flash to store your important files;)

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Use a live OS USB and boot the OS then extract the files you need. Don't worry your files are most probably as they were.

If its a problem with grub only then you might as well install boot-repair and repair it.

Go here how-to-install-the-boot-repair-tool-in-an-ubuntu-live-disc to know how.

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