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You are handed a windows laptop which won't boot without a hardware error. You break out the windows install cd and get a blue screen before you can even bring up the recovery console? Oh yeah, and the owner of the laptop hasn't made a backup since November and must have the data.

Knoppix. Her home directory is rsyncing off as I type.