dear florian, pinneped and others,thanks to your help (and some further study of myself) did I succeed this afternoon in recovering 50GB of data from a completely crashed hd (see a former thread).
dd_rescue and fsck did the job in this case.
thanks again for all your help for which i am deeply grateful steef --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]