Newbie here - Help Required

[tomlaw]

Right, here it goes...

I stupidly erased a folder full of work last night and the usual panic ensued. I have a trial copy of Data Rescue to (hopefully) recover my files but it needs to run from a seperate start up os. I have a LaCie firewire drive so I am hoping to make a bootable OS with the data rescue application on it so I can scan my internal harddrive and (hopefully) recover my files.

In one big question... is SuperDuper the program to make this bootable drive and can I install and run just the data rescue application on it?

A lot of forums have suggested CCC but a lot have also warned it can damage your system so I am more interested in SuperDuper.

Your help would be most appreciated

Kind regards

Tom Law (UK)