On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote: 

> There are some important data files  I must save off of sda2

Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the partition,
e.g. "dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/on_an_external_disk" or something like
that. Otherwise, your efforts to rescue the data can actually ruin it,
and without a backup, your data is irrecoverably lost.

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