10.04>10.10 Power Fail, Update with USB

[1dbzfanjake]

Hey, I was upgrading my machine from 10.04 to 10.10 through the update manager yesterday. Half way in, my power was cut off due to a storm. Now I can't boot up and says a message like "NVIDIA kernel cannot be found" blah. I know my drivers are down and what not. When I boot into the recovery mode I get the error
"fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda2/: clean, 441017/886437 files, 5443336/3536363227 blocks"
I guess I just need to download the rest of the software, but how?
I don't have a CD burner on hand, only a 8gb USB, but I don't know enough command line to run the USB using the GRUB command line. Can someone help me please? I just want my files from my /home directory. Will accessing the files through a USB even work?
-Jake

[Hedgehog1]

Using a LiveUSB to rescue files off you hard drive is a very good approach.

Once you select 'TRY' and use the 'Places' menu to mount the partition with the '/home' directory, you can then copy your files from the internal hard drive to an external hard drive or to another USB stick.

The Hedge

:KS