Cheers for that.
Downloaded and it scared the bejesus outta me - definately getting in the realms of 'no idea what i'm doing here'
However, I did run it and opened test disk and Rhoto rec but both only came up with one option under 'Select a media' which I'm guessing is the laptop at 120gb. No identification of a USB flash drive when I put a card in the USB reader or when I put the disk directly in the laptop reader.
Thanks for the help and the suggestions tho.