i m in law school. as everyone knows how crazy law school is, my data is very important to me i.e. with finals around the corner, i need my data ASAP to study for the finals!!!

my windows laptop crashed and i need to get around 5 gigs of data out of my laptop. the data is mostly .doc and pdf files along with some mp3 files. i have an external 300 gigs maxtor usb drive and i would like to transfer all my important data from the laptop to this usb external drive.

i put in the knopix cd and i dont know what to do.

please advise.

thank you in advance.