If your machine will boot from USB (as in not too old for it to be supported at BIOS there ought not be in reason a LIVE session could not be used to attempt to recover some of that data (music and such). You did have your /home on a separate partition than your file system (root). This is...
This one took me a while to understand well enough to be able to use without having to 'argue' with my machine to achieve the results I desired. LOL
Rob this was a good way of presenting the concept.
