[wellylug] Help needed.

[David Antliff]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:01 PM, David Chord <gnome at gnome.co.nz> wrote:
>  > There are also tools to try restoring files from a bad ext2/3
>  > partition - you could consider this, rather than trying to fix the
>  > entire thing.
>
>  Any reccomends? I did buy one a while back, which was expensive. Not sure if
>  the key would still work though.. The machine it was originally installed on
>  no longer exists, and some companies are tetchy about you installing
>  expensive software a 2nd time.

Don't buy anything - it's all Free.

Try a google search for 'ext2 salvage' and you'll get a few options.
Try them out (which is why I suggest backing everything up to another
disk, of same or larger size, first).

(I'm not recommending any of these, as I haven't used them myself)
http://e2salvage.sourceforge.net/
http://std.dkuug.dk/keld/readme-salvage.html
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/recovering-ext2.html
http://www.linux.com/feature/57748  (gpart)

Good luck!

And don't skip that backup!

-- 
David.