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recovering data from damaged Linux partition

I'm running Windows XP, with an Ubuntu partition that I added. A few days ago, Ubuntu stopped booting. Trying to boot into Ubuntu just takes me into a Grub menu.

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"Linux Recovery Software

might do the trick:

What does it do?

Removed by virus attack, power failure or system crash;
After the partition with the files was reformatted, even for different file system;
When the partition structure on a disk was changed or damaged. In this case, R-Linux can scan the disk trying to find previously existing partitions and restore files from found partitions.
From disks with bad sectors. In this case, R-Linux can first copy the entire disk or its part into an image file and then process the image file. This is especially useful when new bad sectors are constantly appearing on the disk, and remaining information must be immediately saved.
Recovers files on damaged or deleted partitions.

What features does it have?

Standard ""Windows Explorer"" - style interface.
Host OS: Win9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista.
Supported file systems: Ext2FS/Ext3FS (Linux) only.
Recognition and parsing Dynamic (Windows 2000/XP/Vista), Basic, GPT and BSD (UNIX) partitions layout schema and Apple partition map. Dynamic partitions over GPT are supported as well as dynamic partitions over MBR.
Creates image files for an entire hard drive, logical disk, or its part. Such image files can be processed like regular disks. Images can be either simple exact object copies (Plain images) compatible with the previous versions of R-Linux, or compressed images that can be compressed, split into several parts, and password-protected. Such images are fully compatible with the images created by R-Drive Image, but incompatible with the previous versions of R-Linux.
Recognizes localized names.
Recovered files can be saved on any (including network) disks accessible by the host operating system"