Recovering data via USB in DOS or similiar

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Long story short, the woman's hard drive in her computer went kaput. The only way I can access what was on the hard drive is viewing it through DOS. Any other program I've used that has a GUI cannot read from it because the filesystem isn't correct (so it tells me every time). I know the files are still there, as I saw them in a DOS-based program, but I can't copy them to anything else, as DOS doesn't naturally support USB. The only option I have is to get it off via DOS by adding USB support. Does anybody have recommendations on how to do this? I'm at dead-end right now. Thanks in advance.

Edit: I have a USB cable to hook up the HD with in to my computer, but it's not reading correctly from that either.
 
[quote name='Brownjohn']Have you tried a linux live cd? I think I used knoppix last time I had to recover data, but there's others out there.[/QUOTE]

Knoppix is a good way to go. Without knowing what the drive was formatted as (Fat, Fat32, NTFS, other?) its hard to know what the next troubleshooting step would be.

If its NTFS, check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121517/EN-US/

But yeah.. A linux live CD might just do it.

Edit: the link above is kind of ancient, If the machine was running XP, and was at SP 3, try the recovery console:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
 
I would also recommend trying out a Linux boot disc. They are easy to get, and usually do what you need them to do. (Grab files.)
 
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