Recover data in ext3 partition

[anthony baldwin]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> honglin shang wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a hard drive crash. From the R-linux, I can see the mount 
>> point, i.e. , /data, while it is empty. Otherthing like /etc/, I can 
>> see the files under it and recover, anyone know why?
>
>
> Hey, that disc is CRASHED! What part of CRASHED do you not understand?
> Be glad you can find ANYTHING AT ALL on it.
>
> Now you know why you should be doing regular backups.
>
> Mike

You may be able to recover the data using dd_rescue, by copying the 
partition to
another disc or partition.
See this:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-save-recover-data-from-crashed-disks-with-dd-and-ddrescue-command.html

tony