Two things I would like to add. You might consider making the next filesystem ext3 rather than ext2. Ext3 can usually deal with system crashes *****much***** better than plain vanilla ext2. you can even convert ext2 filesystems to ext3 without any data loss, provided of course you do it *before* the filesystem becomes corrupted. There are FOSS utilities that may be able to pull the data off of your drive even in the state it is in. The down side is you would have to pretty much pick through the resulting data manually as the filenames will be something totally meaningless. I did this with a system of mine that was cracked and traced the activities of the cracker and recovered some files he created and some of my own files. It's a lot of work and it takes hours for the utility to recover the data and of course you need a spare harddrive.

Brian

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No, would not be worth it. Mainly just my personal stuff that can be replaced, although it will be time consuming. Only had a few dir's of business stuff that I'll need to re-create and some backup dir's.

lowell wrote:

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Is it worth the cost a data recovery company would charge

you; they can do

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just about anything, I've heard...