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My IDE disk went bad (surprising S.M.A.R.T indicated that it was ok, still getting some errors). I managed to copy most of 120 GB partition with dd_recover, only something like 600 blocks was unreadable. After 'e2fsck -y' (or would -p been better?) most of important data not found from backups was restored. However, one important file is still missing (an older copy exists so everything is not lost). Apparently it was open or was writt...

...to an identical drive that I have been working on. But every time.. a fsck destroys all the data (moves everything to lost+found) and nothing that I've found is able to restore the dir structure... or allow me to superposition any of the subdirs (such as /home/*). I've tried testdisk, dd_recover, and Autopsy.. mounting and fsking with alternate superblocks, all with no success. I would like to retain file names.. as I see that SOME filename/dir structure is intact when the fsck starts nuking all my files that don't have a parent dir (e.g. ../home/user/file1 --> lost+found). Is...