
If not, ask a friend if you could use their computer to make one.įirst, you need to download a Linux distribution that does what you need it to do. Hopefully, you’ve done this before your hard drive stopped It will also give you access to any hard drives that are in your The live USB will access your computer’s RAM and CPU toįunction. The operating system and all its programs stay on the USB. Then you start the computer and tell it to boot from the Once you’ve made the live USB, you insert it in to your USB type, since so many computers don’t have CD or DVD players anymore.

You may haveĪlready heard about Linux but didn’t think you’d have any use for it.Ī Live CD or Live USB provides a way to use an OS on aĬomputer, without installing it on the computer. Linux is an open source operating system (OS). We’ll show you how to get the Linux Live CD and then use it to recover Windows files from your dead computer.

The USB drive for your recover files needs to be formatted to FAT32 file format.
