
Well now I'm trying to recover my main HDD. It was partitioned like this:
1PP - experimental partition, last was Win8 (whipped), ntfs;
2PP - FreeBSD, ufs2;
3EP - extended with swap, Ubuntu,ext4 and empty LP,ext2, 160GB;
4PP - storage fat32, 100GB,full
It looks like this now:
1PP Linux /boot
2PP Linux swap
3PP Linux (Salix)
The deep scan results:
TestDisk successfully recovered fat32 storage partition so I lost almost nothing in storage (it's a magic btw!)Disk /dev/sda - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60802 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
* Linux 0 1 1 764 254 57 12289656
P Linux Swap 765 0 1 892 254 47 2056304
D Linux 893 0 1 60800 254 59 962422016
D Linux 1848 1 1 5763 250 62 62910224 [Foreskin]
D Linux Swap 9138 1 1 10181 254 42 16771776
D Linux 10182 1 1 29762 254 57 314568696
D Linux 26239 1 1 32112 254 60 94365744
D Linux 29142 0 1 35015 253 60 94365744
D Linux 29763 1 1 42816 254 56 209712440
D Linux 34970 162 9 40714 161 7 92277296 [/]
D Linux 34971 37 11 40715 36 9 92277296 [/]
D Linux 34974 19 54 40718 18 52 92277296 [/]
D Linux 34982 190 25 40726 189 23 92277296 [/]
D Linux 38248 1 1 42294 202 59 65011712 [LV4]
D FAT12 39718 0 7 39718 45 51 2880 [NO NAME]
D Linux 40635 12 18 46248 11 11 90172776
D Linux 40637 87 27 46250 86 20 90172776
D Linux 42295 1 1 46210 254 58 62910472 [LV5]
D Linux 42817 1 1 47746 254 60 79200384
D Linux 42817 8 8 47746 227 33 79198208
D Linux 46211 1 1 47746 254 62 24675776 [LV6]
D FAT32 LBA 47747 0 1 60800 254 63 209712510 [storage]
I couldn't find any presence of FreeBSD, pitty but it's not really big loss: almost no documents were there.
My main OS was Ubuntu (lots of documents) and it looks like TestDisk successfully recovered the ext4 however I could save everything except /home partition (where the documents obviously resided).
I don't remember I played with encryption but if open /home it shows:
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drwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 30-Apr-2010 16:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 14-Aug-2012 09:48 ..
dr-x------ 1000 1000 4096 30-Apr-2010 15:22 <user_name>
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 30-Apr-2010 15:18 .ecryptfs
lrwxrwxrwx 0 0 44 30-Apr-2010 16:13 .directory
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dr-x------ 1000 1000 4096 30-Apr-2010 15:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 30-Apr-2010 16:13 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1000 1000 31 30-Apr-2010 15:18 .ecryptfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1000 1000 30 30-Apr-2010 15:18 .Private
lrwxrwxrwx 1000 1000 52 30-Apr-2010 15:18 README.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 1000 1000 56 30-Apr-2010 15:18 Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop
drwx------ 1000 1000 4096 30-Apr-2010 15:22 .cache

Theoretically I can redo all the documents lost but with an exception of my kids' pictures...obviously.
Just got a thought: Salix is not very large and it resides now somewhere at the beginning of HDD where empty partition of ~30GB was located. Maybe it's possible to delete it and somehow restore then entire HDD to it's conditions before the accident?
Please help.