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Oh bum. The senior citizens' puter has gone and GOTTEN sick. My best guestimate [wow, the spill chicken licks this] is that they've gone and got themselves one of them thar viruseses. It boots, even in safe mode, to ask for a password with a input dialog that is clearly NOT part of Windows XP.

I have persuaded them to scrap the mofu and get themselves a new box; so far so good. The only slight, tiny, itsy-bitsy problem is that they have a lot of un-backed up photos, etc, etc, etc that they would like to keep if possible.

What I am thinking of is an OS on a stick so I can go in, boot up off the stick, and copy out all their old documents to another stick. Do any of you have any suggestions of how to approach this?
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