Who said Ubuntu isn’t the greatest? I had to make some data recovery from a computer that did not turn on.

Grabbing the hard drive and plugging into another computer did not help, since it did not boot up windows (not even on save mode). But no problem! Just put a Ubuntu cd on the drive, boot from it, and voila, full access to the hard drive contents.

Yes, another solution would be to use a caddy, but you have to pay for a caddy, and Ubuntu is free!