help! can i recover my data?

[robertlaferla-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org (Robert La Ferla)]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:

> I did some disk recovery from a failing hard drive a few months  
> back, and wrote up what I did.
>
> http://gdfuego.blogspot.com/2009/02/data-recovery-from-bad-disk.html
>
> Hopefully it'll help.

That is helpful.  Thx.  I will try ddrescue.  However, I am not using  
ntfs.  I am using ext3.  Given that I ran fsck a few times and Ctrl- 
c'ed out of it because it was taking way too long with too many  
questions, I wonder if I can ever recover it.