I hope live CD keeps helping you like this all the time

Here’s what I have:
- girlfriend’s Macbook booting to gray screen. It has a single 160 gibibyte SATA hard drive.
- my desktop machine with 1 terabyte SATA hard drive and 80 gibibyte IDE hard drive.

I needed to get the data off her computer and onto mine so I could reinstall Leopard onto her laptop and copy all her files back over. I took out her hard drive but couldn’t plug it into mine because I only have one SATA cable and it’s being used by my terabyte drive which has Ubuntu on it. In other words, if I hook up her drive, my computer won’t boot to copy the files over. So I burned a 10.04 disc, popped it in, shut down, unhooked my terabyte drive, hooked up her drive and booted into the live environment. This way I had her drive hooked up via SATA and my secondary drive hooked up via IDE. I copied the files over, put everything the way it was, copied the files from my secondary drive to the terabyte drive and now when I fix her machine she can remote into my box and copy all the files back to her machine.