i have successfully(read: stupidly) managed to corrupt my main partition of my hard disk!!! and that too just after deleting my backups to make space for pr0n....

now im in a bad fix... tried everything to recover my partition... last 24 hours continously working hard to get it to work... read numerous forums... finders aching now... at the moment ive replaced the hdd on my notebook with an old one(says S.M.A.R.T failure) and am instaling FC7 on it. i have the corrupted hdd with me...

Is there any shop in bangkok who know about linux filesystem and can recover the data on the disk? willing to pay for their services if successfull..... at the moment i will be happy with wehatever they can salvage from the disk...really desperate.

the damaged partition was a linux LVM type and it used ext3 filesystem.

really in a desperate situation.

my stupidity ... computer had FC6... yesterday i had problems loging on... i panicked... loged on to the terminal as root... searched using lynx... on reading incomplete guides/forum posts i did an fsck on the main partition. ignored the following warning/ WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.

all hell broke loose after that. even testdisk didnt help.

guess i should get some sleep.

I can be contacted at : sajal (at) thaindian (dot) com

-Sajal Kayan