Chad,
You can try these which are listed on the flalug linux links page:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
and
http://crashrecovery.org
Smitty
Chad Perrin wrote:
> My father uses a Linux box as a fileserver. The partition on which he
> stores all the important data uses an XFS filesystem. This weekend,
> that filesystem, which comprises one entire hard drive, stopped working.
>
> It's reporting I/O errors and won't mount. The xfs_check utility and
> QTParted (from a Knoppix LiveCD) can't read it. The xfs_repair utility
> reports several problems that can't be fixed. The most prominent,
> common, and troubling error amongst all attempts to do anything with the
> drive reads "Can't read superblock".
>
> I'm trying to help him find tools and techniques that might help him
> recover his data -- and there is some important data related to his work
> that had not been backed up yet, so he's kind of in panic mode now. Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> We're hoping this won't turn into a need to go to a data recovery
> specialist, because he doesn't have the several thousand dollars that
> would cost right now.
>
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