Hi, folks.  I managed to shoot myself in the foot yesterday during a
kickstart installation.  I was installing to a PATA drive on a system
with a second, SCSI drive.  I was using the SCSI drive to store the
files I wanted to preserve.  Unfortunately, I had a "clearpart --linux"
command in the kickstart file.  (For reasons I won't describe I was
"borrowing" a kickstart file that we had used successfully on systems
with only a single disk drive.)

I suspect that all of the files I need are still present on the disk, as
there has been no use of the disk since the clearpart operation.  I'm
looking for some partition-recovery software that will restore the
previous partitions.

I've seen a couple of commercial products that claim to recover ext3
partitions.  I don't mind paying some money for this, but the products
I've found so far all assume that you've got the drive on a Windows
machine.  I guess we could arrange to move the drive to a Windows
system, but I wonder if there's any software that's linux-based that we
could use for this task.

Thanks.

					- Mike
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