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Does anyone know of any good tools for retrieving data from a bad hard drive with an ext3 filesystem? The drive has developed bad blocks in data blocks, inode blocks, and in the journal. fsck will not work because it always tries to apply the journal first and debugfs can't be used to turn off the journal because of bad inode maps.

I've been lazy about my backups and this drive has all my OS code, the new version of this site I was working on and a whole lot more. If there aren't any good tools around does anyone have an really good ext2/3 reference material. I already know of the stuff at http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/FileSystems/ and http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html.

Thanks,
-Chase

I accidentally stumbled upon this a couple days ago!

I dunno if it can help, but it looks fairly promising.
http://r-undelete.com/

Cheers,
Jeff

U can check if this: http://www.stellarinfo.com/download.htm
demo shows you the files. If it does you can always check for the full version on DC or IRC..