Hello, I've got a laptop here running xp home sp3, that it's owner in a fit of cleaning files deleted something that seriously corrupted windows. It hits the xp logo screen and freezes. It will not boot in safe mode or last known good configuration, gives the same results, I'm assuming the owner nuked something out of the windows directory or let an uninstallation program remove something that he shouldn't have done. I have his original disk and will be reinstalling the OS, since a repair of the system didn't work either. I've got to deal with data backups though and these will be filenames with windows naming conventions. He knows he needs his profile area backed up, but I'm going to do a complete system backup. The machine has a wireless card and I've got a network attached hard disk to receive the backup data, but I'm not sure of whether I should use something like grml or vinux to do the backup. Restiration of profile files will be done from the reinstalled and working windows. So my questions are vinux or grml? And one of them hopefully has a utility that'll read and backup ntfs in a format that a windows reinstalled box can read. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.