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true, I've had to do that a couple of times here at work, though you can use Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc...pretty much any "live cd".if the hard drive is formatted ntfs the read will be slow compared to a fat drive, but will still work.
If the drive is dead you may not be able to recover this way. Depend what kind of I/O errors you get when you mount it.Usually this method works if something is f'up on the boot drive and it won't boot but the drive is functional.