Hello, Julien. And sorry for your situation. Unfortunately, I suffered something similar with an HD some years ago and today I still have a list of files with strange names to check, sort and rename properly. But at least I recovered a lot of them (don&#39;t know if all).<br>

<br>So I tell you that I did recover things with some non-FLOSS software somebody recommended me then, I had no time to do a proper search for FLOSS alternatives.<br><br>I concur with what Robin said: don&#39;t write or mount read only. Very important.<br>

<br>Just in case, I add to what have been said some tools you can use now that, at first, could be better for you as they can be used not so GUI-driven and are Linux based:<br><br>LiveCDs:<br><br>* <a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page" target="_blank">SystemRescueCd</a>: live Linux rescue CD that offers numerous tools to handle 
numerous tasks, including partition manipulation, file recovery, hard 
disk testing, ftp, and disk formatting. <br><br>*  <a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html" target="_blank">Knoppix</a> and <a href="http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/security/tools/rescue-cd/" target="_blank">F-Secure Rescue CD</a>
 (based on Knoppix)<br><br>* <a href="http://distrowatch.com/partedmagic">Parted Magic</a><br><br>* <a href="http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/" target="_blank">Ubuntu Rescue Remix</a> another live Linux CD tools<br><br>I remember people recommended me mainly SystemRecueCD, F-Secure and PartedMagic<br>

<br>Other:<br><br>*<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html" target="_blank"> Ddrescue</a> and <a href="http://safecopy.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Safecopy </a>are tools that allow tasks related to copying disks with errors and such<br>

<br>Tons of luck, Julien.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/9 Julien Claassen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:julien@mail.upb.de" target="_blank">julien@mail.upb.de</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Hello everyone!<br>
  Thanks for your quick response and advise. I discovered a tool called ext3grep, which contrary to its name, does not just do grepping. It seems to work. Only one directory seems really gone, and that&#39;s not too bad.<br>


  Thanks everyone and sorry for panicking at you. :-(<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
  Kind regards<br>
          Julien<br>
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