Hi Ron,

Well it looks like there isn't much of a response,
however,I do have some more info for you.
The following info is not meant to be the "be all,end all"solution,
but I'm sure some of it will work.

Rescue discs,Boot discs and Live CDs.
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
Good ,but has a Linux desktop-just have to get used to that.

UBCD for Windows
Has Windows desktop.Lots of apps (you could take out some if you want)

Also check out The CD Forum (Powered by Invision Power Board)

and Bootdisk.Com

Keep those in your favs,you never know when they would come in handy

For myself I have also used DSL (Damn Small Linux),Knoppix and a few more.
I ran a whole week on DSL while sorting out my problem.

Still,there are other solutions.
A couple of times I simply used an empty HD and XXCopy
XXCOPY, a Versatile File Management Utility --- Boldly Extended Xcopy to tranfer all my files.
Acronis True Image helped as well.

Also used an external USB HD and a regular HD on an USB to IDE or SATA adaptor.I have more info about that.
Please PM me,I'm running out of time (space) here

Pete.