Disk Recovery suggestions welcomed...

[Jack Coats]

As much as I hate to suggest it, you might try a commercial product called 
SpinRite.  It has been around for years.  Gibson Research sells it and it 
supports Linux and the other set of file systems.

http://www.grc.com/spinrite

Just a satisfied customer (it pulled mine out of a crack more than once!)

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