request for advice on recovering filesystem

[Christopher Chan]

> I'm going to be helping mp with the data recovery (I know him IRL) and
> just want to ask some supplementary questions.
>

/me blinks. Oh, so ubuntu-users is like an online game for some people?

photorec will pull whatever uncorrupted files off whether the directory 
tree is intact or not. Don't bother trying to fix the directory.