What would be the safest choice of data recovery?
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I have reason to believe these are the safest options:
a) Remove the hard-drive, add it to another functional unit and transfer all the data to external portable hard-drive. Once data is secured, then do a complete re-install of operating system on problem computer.
b) Create Windows startup disk, use [...]