Lost a hard drive!? Help.

[Steven Elling]

I've used recover to get files back I accidently deleted.  It worked great.  
I got all my files back and then some.

http://recover.sourceforge.net/

Here is the description from Debian dselect:

Recover automates some steps as described in the ext2-undeletion howto. This 
means it seeks all the deleted inodes on
your hard drive with debugfs. When all the inodes are indexed, recover asks 
you some questions about the deleted file.
These questions are:
  * Hard disk device name
  * Year of deletion
  * Month of deletion
  * Weekday of deletion
  * First/Last possible day of month
  * Min/Max possible file size
  * Min/Max possible deletion hour
  * Min/Max possible deletion minute
  * User ID of the deleted file
  * A text string the file included (can be ignored)

If recover found any fitting inodes, it asks to give a directory name and 
dumps the inodes into the directory. Finally
it asks you if you want to filter the inodes again (in case you typed some 
wrong answers).