Recover files from corrupt filesystem

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I have an older 80GB IDE internal hdd, with a few files on that I would like very much to recover:
some word documents
some latex documents (text files) and pictures (png, jpg, eps files)
some other text documents and visual studio project files

I had backed them (not the latex ones though) up using svn, but have not committed lately, and would loose a lot of work if I cant recover.

the hdd seems to have lost its filesystem, i have no idea how it came about.

I know it has/had 3 NTFS partitions, i know the files i want are on the second or third partition.
I read http://superuser.com/questions/81877/recover-hard-disk-data
Partition Find and Mount did not see all the partitions using intelligent scan
TestDisk does (i think), I followed the step by step instructions here, but when I try to list the files it says:

"Can't open filesystem, filesystem seems damaged."

I'm not sure how to proceed here, as TestDisks wiki does not contain this error message afaik.
I don't know if the hdd is gonna fail, or some prog has caused the filesystem to be corrupt, the hdd doesnt make a sound, so i guess that's good.

I would like some guidance so I don't accidentally cause more damage. (eg. is it ok to let testdisk write the filesystem to disk? I'm pretty the partitions are listed ok, but not 100%)

Recover files from corrupt filesystem

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Published on 2010-04-21T15:40:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 15:43 UTC
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My situation:

I have an older 80GB IDE internal hdd, with a few files on that I would like very much to recover: some word documents some latex documents (text files) and pictures (png, jpg, eps files) some other text documents and visual studio project files

I had backed them (not the latex ones though) up using svn, but have not committed lately, and would loose a lot of work if I cant recover.

the hdd seems to have lost its filesystem, i have no idea how it came about.

I know it has/had 3 NTFS partitions, i know the files i want are on the second or third partition. I read http://superuser.com/questions/81877/recover-hard-disk-data Partition Find and Mount did not see all the partitions using intelligent scan TestDisk does (i think), I followed the step by step instructions here, but when I try to list the files it says:

"Can't open filesystem, filesystem seems damaged."

I'm not sure how to proceed here, as TestDisks wiki does not contain this error message afaik. I don't know if the hdd is gonna fail, or some prog has caused the filesystem to be corrupt, the hdd doesnt make a sound, so i guess that's good.

I would like some guidance so I don't accidentally cause more damage. (eg. is it ok to let testdisk write the filesystem to disk? I'm pretty the partitions are listed ok, but not 100%)

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