Quote Originally Posted by OErjan
you are pretty much COMPLETLY comitted.
if the guess is wrong the data recovery wil cost you 10 times as much and be MUCH less sucessfull at finding ALL files.
normally a good recovery from a disk like that can go up to 50 000 euro and still not be 100% of content.
I disagree with this completely. gpart only writes to the partition table. Assume it is bad now (although one wants to be very sure of that before letting gpart change it). It is easy enough to wipe it out again if the gpart does not help, and one would be no worse off than they are now. You could even make a copy of the bad bytes in the partition table now and relace them (if you really wanted to) later if gpart didn't help. Please explain why you believe that accepting a gpart partition table could leave him any worse off than he is now, in actual technical terms, not just in unsupported threats that recovery will cost more and recover less.