Erland, You could try Helix from;  http://www.e-fense.com/helix/contents.php It's a free Computer Forensic Tool.  If you know what you are after ie Documents, Photographs you should be able to recover them using a file signature search using some of the tools on it.  i'd suggest Autopsy, scalpel or foremost maybe what you need. You will need another medium to carve the files out to though. Erland <erlandh@myrealbox.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi all, I recently had a major problem on my external hard drive - something to do with a corrupt journal I think. Anyway, after asking people on the ubuntu IRC channel, it appears that I need to go to a commercial data recovery service. I have tried a few things myself without success - mainly because I don't have another external hard drive that can hold an entire image of the drive. Therefore gddrescue etc doesn't work. Can anyone tell me who (in Sydney) could do data recovery on an ext3 filesystem. The data is super critical to me, so I want to make sure whoever handles it really knows what they're doing. Thanks, Erland. erlandh@myrealbox.com -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au </blockquote> <hr size=1> Get the name you always wanted with the <a href="http://au.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/au/y7mail/default/*http://au.mail.yahoo.com/?p1=ni&p2=general&p3=tagline&p4=other" target=_blank>new y7mail email address</a>.