Help - disaster recovery

[O. Sinclair]

On 13/01/2013 12:56, Phil wrote:
> 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?
>
Personally I use Remastersys to "clone" my system and Luckybackup to 
save my data. Remastersys creates a bootable/installable iso from your 
system, Luckybackup saves whatever data you want saved.

I then create a bootable usb and save my data to an external usb harddrive.

This combination has helped me restore my setup in less than an hour 
several times with minimal loss of data.

Best,
Sinclair