Salvaging data from bad drive

[Jonathon McKitrick]

Hi all,

my drive crashed, and I have backups, but the latest data is still on the
drive.  I can boot with a fixit disk, but the fixit disk doesn't have the
device for the /usr partition I need to access.

Can I use the fixit CD instead?  Is there an easier way to access the
partition?  I just need to mount /usr long enough to get my data.

jm
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