Hi.

A wee while back I was moving house. When it came time to move the computers I ran a few routine checks before closing down the machines to move them. My Debian server was running fsck when the power was pulled out (mad rush to clean up etc and the plug for the computer was pulled out instead of the one for the vacuum cleaner).

So, that install was completely and utterly hosed. I tried for a few days to recover the entire thing, gave up, threw another drive in and hit it with Slackware (which I highly recommend btw). So now, I've still got the old drive with all the data on it.

The drive originally had 4 partitions - 2x ext3, 1x ext2, 1x swap.

I'd like to try and recover some of that data if possible (or more precisely Megan would like me to recover that data) so can anyone give me any advice??

I've tried all the usual things, using e2fsck, fsck with alternate/backup superblocks, gpart, e2salvage etc and haven't had any luck.

Any advice would be appreciated

Cheers.

Shane.