Computer Forensics

With the hard drive crash I have been scouring the Internet looking for data recovery options. My Brother mentioned an 8 gig USB memory stick he had bought for less than $30.00 and is smaller than a stick of gum. It was too tempting of an offer, I got one for myself. Now I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use it as a boot option for data recovery setup.

I would love to learn Computer forensics and data recovery. I have run into enough occasions where I wish I knew how and what to do to get data off a dead drive. Well back to the research...