Help - disaster recovery

[Phil]

On 13/01/13 20:47, David Fletcher wrote:
> For about four quid including postage, a couple of days ago I got a 
> "just in case" adaptor from ebay that plugs a bare SATA laptop drive 
> into a USB socket. That's the approach I would adopt - if something 
> gets screwed on a drive that contains vital information then DON'T 
> keep fooling around with it. Get it out, and plug it into another 
> system as an external drive, preferably as read-only. That way you 
> might be able to recover your data. Dave 

Good advice Dave.

I just bought a USB adapter for an IDE drive from and old dead laptop, 
it's used as a backup drive for this laptop.

What tool, or tools, would you suggest to attempt data recovery?

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Regards,
Phil