[TriLUG] NTFS corrupted partition recovery????

[J.C. Jones]

All,

A large NTFS file partition ( 84gb ) has become corrupted. Spinrite sees 
it as an NTFS or HPFS (??) partition and gladly processes it, but no 
change. Ubuntu sees it as an NTFS or HPFS ( ?? ), but will not mount it. 
Says it is corrupted to use chkdsk to recover. Chkdisk says it is a RAW 
file and will not work on it. Winxp says it needs formatting.

I have found an application called "Getdataback" that appears to recover 
the files, but to save the files they want 80 dollars for registration. 
Anyone know of an open source application that will recover the files 
and/or partition structure???

jcj