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I have a question about my filesystem. I have an 80GB ATA HDD with a 
partition on it full of data. It was in a removable rack which isn't 
electrically sound and has since damaged the partition. I've tried 
recovering it with fdisk/disklabel but it reports incorrect block device 
and won't mount the partition. I'm also unsure what geometry the drive 
actually used because it had about 3 different geometries from other 
installations. Are there any tools out there that can help with this 
other than gpart? Anyone want to plug a data recovery service (in 
Australia)?