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Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
Well, this looks bad, but you already did the right steps in creating your dd_rescue clone copy!
Please try testdisk on the mounted image on your PC and try to restore /home and /home/opt just to be sure to some save space to look for your data[dot-directories, mails, contacts etc.). You would mount it with (Is this a sudo or a su linux setup? Please add the necessary steps to become root.), but i never opened an image which contains more than one partition
Code:
mount -o loop dd_rescue-image-here /mnt
Word of caution: Do not save anything from the Maemo /home to your PC's /home/YOU because it might mess things up, who knows!?)

There might be a chance to recover the phone to its former state, but this seems to be risky and you should have good knowledge about how it was setup before to achieve it again.
Do you remember which Nitdroid-Install-HowTo you followed, if any? Did Nitdroid work for some time fine parrallel to Maemo? Do you remember how the emmc-setup should look? Did you at some time change the partition scheme of the emmc to customize the storage?
Testdisk has no time-line, so it finds more than one setup, if it was re-partitioned before.
Thanks for your reply. I'll try to run testdisk on that image then - if it fouls up I can always make another one I have a different partition on the linux laptop to save output to so no risk of overwriting system files there.

I'm not so bothered about completely restoring the from these files, more just getting the user data files from the fat partition on the eMMC and if possible text messages, call logs and contacts. The phone was actually grinding to a halt quite frequently so a fresh install is a good thing and was on the cards anyway.thing

Nitdroid was installed using the installer in the repositories and then I think an update script to get it to the latest version (not gingerbread, I think it was 0.8 froyo?). It was all automatic.

The eMMC was, unless changed by the Nitdroid installer (which doesn't seem as though it should have done it) exactly as per factory settings. So there should be no change between the vanilla image and the partition tables that were on there before they got destroyed. Is there a standard partition table layout that I could refer to in this case? I've noticed options in various tools to assume recovery from certain points... if there was a reliable standard disk geometry layout I could impose on this it might make recovery easier... or even perhaps use a partition table editor to impose partitions back on the image to see if that will restore them.

Thanks again for your help