i had a harddisk go bad and the filesystem got corrupted, but i could still read the drive, so i wrote some programs to search the drive for specific types of files that i needed, such as tar.gz, zip, word docs, etc. the names of many of these files were lost, but the data not. tar will ignore extra data at the end of the archive, zip files have footers, and i think word documents do, too. i've recovered much data this way on e2fs and fat file systems - luckily almost all files weren't fragmented.
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