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Thanks, but what does it have to do with anything I talked about?

As far as i know, this software is free and without any kind of implied garanties about performance or support. (...) This wonderful software is produced by someone who gives his work, time and knowneldge to help others.
So what? I ...

I say this forum is buzzing with support. Neither this simple question, nor my other detailed post about recovering lost partition got any response since over a week.

Quite impressive for an esteemed data recovery forum.

Add to that bucketload of some random html files that are not actually html files. This is all quite strange.

I have been running Photorec on my lost partition since several hours. So far, it retrieved 50 000 files, out of which 40 000 is text files that make no sense when I look into them, and that did not exist before.

What are they, and why are they being recovered?

I am working on dd image now. Testdisk finds 39753 partitions on it, but non with files. I run photorec, but it says it will complete after 50 hours.

Any other suggestions? I am pretty sure the files are intact, it's just the partition table that is all screwed up. If I could repair that, I suppose ...

Finally, I bit the bullet and I run fsck -b 32768 /dev/sdb1 -y -C0 After 2 hours of fixing inodes and other things, it was done. It ended up saying that partition still contain errors, but I was able to mount it no normal way.

Data size went from 330GB to 190GB and all of it was in lost+found, out ...

I'm in trouble. I am trying to recover my main data partition.

Here's how it happened:

sdb1 - 680gb primary partition, ext4, around 300gb of data on it
sdb2 - 60gb primary partition, ext4, for backing up system from sda1 with rsync

While doing rsync backup on sdb2, I run gparted, which indicated ...