I was using Ubuntu 10.10 with VirtualBox for my virtual machines. I think my hdd has some bad sectors because after one reset Ubuntu failed to start. After running fsck -y from live CD some changes were made to my partition. I tried to run testdisk from another PC to this harddrive but I can't access the old Linux partition. It appears deleted partition after deep scan. How can I recover my ova files? Testdisk also gives me a warning about number of heads/cylinder mismatches.
Try "R-Linux", it might recover your data and it's got nice GUI:
http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/Download.shtml
There's probably also a way to repair broken partition, but I would recover data to another partition with R-Linux first (just in case).
After doing that backup, run DOS tool "HDAT2" from boot disc (like Hiren's Boot CD) and see if those were really bad sectors (it might even fix them for you - but don't count that drive will not fail again).
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