Thanks I'll try that but Local disk e is an external hard drive (I was so nervous I forgot to mention that) Oh and how do I use it? I don't get it when you said run it from a CD. What does it do? And one more specification. There is a light on my external hard drive to show its plugged in. I found out that the light goes on for about 5 seconds, flashes and dies.
If the steps provided by Delphin won't work, try the one I was taking about in my first post.
It doesn't matter whether you have the external drive or the one inside the computer. First you have to download and burn the Ubuntu CD. Next connect your external drive to the machine put the CD into the DVD drive and boot the computer.
Choose the language and press
Enter. Next select
Try Ubuntu Without Any Change To Your Computer and hit
Enter. When Ubuntu set up, you will see its desktop. In the upper taskbar hit
Places, next double click
Computer. In the Computer window you should see the external drive, double click it. You should see all your folders there, double click one of them to find out if you still have the files inside the folder. If you do, copy or move the folders to the other location, for example the pendrive or any other location on the main drive. Just click the folder, in the
Menu Bar hit
Edit, next select
Send To, in the another window, choose the destination and press
Send.
After you finish, click the red switch off button in the upper right corner of the desktop, then click
Shut Down. Remove the CD and hit
Enter to shut the computer down completely.