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You will find UBCD Ultimate Boot CD. UBCD allows users to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from most CDROM drives on Intel-compatible machines, no operating system required. The cd includes many diagnostic utilities plus you can use PhotoRec, Digital Picture & File Recovery. 'PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted' After Using PhotoRec & PhotoRec Wiki are useful.
TestDisk is another tool on UBCD. This tool is used to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and others.
As you have found out, backups to the same physical drive is not a good practice. You really do not need to backup the system entirely. Just configuration and your important data. Since the system itself can be rebuilt and then use the saved configuration to recover to a working system. Sure one can do a mirror image but that too should be placed else where.
Any time you have issues then work should be done on a copy of the problem system. That way the original will remain intact. Any writes to the problem disk will just compound problems.
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