Linux distro for data recovery

[Surestgarlic2]

This is a short and simple question, but about a year ago I made a post talking about how to recover files from a old computer and someone mentioned a distro with low system requirements that would allow me to access my hard drive as a folder while booting from usb does anyone know what distro this is?

[_Omega_]

I once used knopix to do exactly that, but I think puppy should work fine as well...

[RollyShed]

18 minutes ago, Surestgarlic2 said:

how to recover files from a old computer.... a distro ... that would allow me to access my hard drive as a folder while booting from usb does anyone know what distro this is?

Any Linux distro should do that. I would use Linux Mint because that is what I use and what I've installed on all of the 50+ installations I've done.

The installation is usually always done on to an SSD and I plug the removed disk in via a USB to SATA cable to copy the files and folders to the new disk.

 

However if you are going to boot the computer from a USB stick, where are you going to save the files to?

If the recovered data is not too much you could use another USB stick to save to.

[Surestgarlic2]

9 hours ago, RollyShed said:

Any Linux distro should do that. I would use Linux Mint because that is what I use and what I've installed on all of the 50+ installations I've done.

The installation is usually always done on to an SSD and I plug the removed disk in via a USB to SATA cable to copy the files and folders to the new disk.

 

However if you are going to boot the computer from a USB stick, where are you going to save the files to?

If the recovered data is not too much you could use another USB stick to save to.

This is what I plan on doing the only issue is I need a distro that is super lightweight I am running this in a old dell laptop with pentium m and 512mb of ram I think the distro was antix but I am not sure does that sound like one that would work well or not

[Surestgarlic2]

9 hours ago, RollyShed said:

Any Linux distro should do that. I would use Linux Mint because that is what I use and what I've installed on all of the 50+ installations I've done.

The installation is usually always done on to an SSD and I plug the removed disk in via a USB to SATA cable to copy the files and folders to the new disk.

 

However if you are going to boot the computer from a USB stick, where are you going to save the files to?

If the recovered data is not too much you could use another USB stick to save to.

Also I am only trying to get pictures of my cousins funeral so not that much I have a 16gb drive 

[RollyShed]

3 hours ago, Surestgarlic2 said:

I am running this in a old dell laptop with pentium m and 512mb of ram

The common problem of asking a question without giving details.

 

To get the pictures, I'd remove the disk and do the job on a decent computer.

[10leej]

Honestly most any distro that ships a live GUI can do this.

 

Personally I keep a Ventoy USB around that has Clonezilla, SystemRescueCD, and Fedora's Everything Installer (since thats my distro of choice these days) thoguh I messing around more with Silverblue.