[ale] Fwd: Hard Drive Death Spiral -- AKA Recovery Software?

[H P Ladds]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> The first thing you need / want to do is make a full copy (image) of the drive.

Done

> You can use gpart to guess / rebuild your partition table.

Really? do I need to do this? It is one partition (sda5) that is
causing trouble. Before I screwed it up it was formated as ext3.

> Once you know where your partitions are and you know what filesystem
> type you have, you can use various recovery software to move forward.
> PTK is new opensource recovery tool that was released in the last few
> months.  It may support linux filesystems.  Not sure.

Thanks, I'll check it out.