Micha wrote: > > Please excuse this is not strictly debian or laptop related, > but i'm in urgent trouble.
not a problem for me. here's some links i had saved in case something like this happened to me #### DISCLAIMER #### I HAVE NOT TRIED THESE PROGRAMS PERSONALLY AND HOPE THAT I WILL NOT HAVE TO FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE BUT AM MORE THAN WILLING TO LET YOU TEST THESE FOR ME. #### :) #### Software links: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html Howto and Info links: http://servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/1558230&from=rss http://linux-tweaks.blogspot.com/2006/09/linux-data-recover.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repairing-linux-ext2-or-ext3-file-system.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=428962 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=417651 i know several people that i talked to in the past recommended me using "dd" to make an image and to work from it. use a livecd like Knoppix, Ubuntu, DSL, whatever to work from so partitions won't be mounted. copy things over a network to another computer to work from or to an external drive. looking back over these makes me want to test some of them on an old drive. let us know how this turn out and be sure to keep careful notes as to what you are doing. this will help you out now and others later. good luck. if i get a chance later i will see if i can dig up any decent information that might help. this is all i had on hand. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]