Is there anyway to recover configs.tbz when it wont boot up? What it does is get almost to kde starting up then hangs with a blank screen.

This is on wife's 'special' machine!!! And knoppix 3.3 She needs to recover as she wont listen to me and do a backup. She was loading something off the net when this crash happened. She has about 6 months or so of writtings on it and silly never saved to hd, not sure exactly where she saved, but it will boot with just hitting the return/enter key. I have looked hi and lo for any recoverable data, but haven't found anything. I know she had a bunch. This occured on 9/22 or at least that is the 'last modified' date on the configs.tbz file.

Doing an open or click on the partition then hovering over the file shows 11.x mb size compared with my 2.4 mb size, so that is not a new one, but the old one she had.

thanks.