lefin1 for the tip on using Ubuntu Linux to get into the HD on that. While I wasn't able to to do a full back-up to my external HD, I'd done that about two weeks back and just rescued the stuff that I'd been working on since then.The question that I STILL have is how I might be able to rescue the last session of FireFox. The browser saves it's last state for a restore when re-booting, but I've not been able to find the specific file. I saved the whole Mozilla section, so I'm guessing that like Prego, "it's in there", but I've had no luck finding it as yet.
The reason that I wanted to get into that was that I had something like 30 job possibilities stacked up in the tab bar, and I'd like to retrieve those, if possible, so I can send out some resumes.
Also, I'm hoping that I can just get back all my ThunderBird files, which I'm hoping I'll be able to restore from what I've saved.
Anybody out there with "Mad Mozilla Skilz" who could point me in the right direction on this stuff would be a great help.