BluEcho,

You can boot your desktop from a Linux disk and burn the files to DVD or copy to external disk.  You can get Knoppix here-it works very well for my data recovery needs:

http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

You download the cd image and burn it to a CD, and then use it to boot from.  It gives you a graphical desktop and you can browse for the files you want to save.  Just remember that you single-click  instead of double-clicking.

Good Luck!!

[EDIT} Don't download the Adrianne version, as it is set up for blind people.

Here's a download link to the English version:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V6.2.1CD-2010-01-31-EN.iso

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