On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Ian Young <ian.greenleaf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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> Fixing partition tables is what this tool was made for.

Seconding this recommendation, but going a step further; if you only
need to recover data i would use
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec. i recently had to use it to
recover 70Gb of pictures from a failed laptop hard drive. a drive that
had a headcrash and i could not even dd or dd_rescue. ( it recovers
all files it is able to reconstruct, not just images anymore)