How A Ubuntu Live CD Can Save Your Life ( DATA )

A ubuntu live cd can be very useful , apart from the fact that you can use it to try out ubuntu without installing , it has a lot more advantages . Here's how the ubuntu live cd helped my friend to backup and save all his data when he had no other go :
A friend of mine is a complete windows user and often ends up having his system crash , for various reasons , installing crappy software, virus,spyware etc . This time it was worse , he couldnt even boot windows as it gave an error . So the problem here is , since he cannot boot into windows , he couldnt backup his data . Then he tried the Windows repair option ,but that didnt work , windows popped up an error saying it couldnt repair . Then the option of windows restore came , but windows couldnt find any restore points to restore . So that failed as well . He didnt have enough space to install windows again ( i.e. having 2 windows ) , he had a problem with partitions and stuff , and even formatting is not an option , as his data was in the same drive ( on the desktop mostly ) as windows .
So he was pretty upset as he didnt know what to do . Thats when he used the ubuntu live cd , where things got realy simple . He booted into the live cd and connected a LAN cable to his machine and within no time he had access to a shared folder on the network . He then backedup all his data on to that shared folder ( which obviously gets stored on another computer on the network ) , this way his data was saved and he was able to reformat his machine without loosing his data.

If your windows machine is running slow or acting weird , or giving any DLL file missing error , its fine , you can somehow handle it , by first backing up your data and then reformatting . But if you have no access to windows i.e. if windows doesnt boot up , then your in some trouble!!Therefore its really useful to have a ubuntu live cd with you . It can be a life saver!!

PS: Please dont just have 1 partition with OS only , its better to keep 2 partitions , one for OS and one for DATA , so you can reformat without any problems . At the sametime do not have TOO MANY partitions , people have drive letters upto K,L,M . That is quite a lot , and you can have problems in the future , when it comes to resizing , expanding etc .