Thanks! Had no idea these recovery tools existed! Sounds really easy to recover a corrupt filesystem; especially since it doesn't appear to be a hardware fault (although it could be defective RAM too; so I'll have him run memtest86+).
Thanks! Had no idea these recovery tools existed! Sounds really easy to recover a corrupt filesystem; especially since it doesn't appear to be a hardware fault (although it could be defective RAM too; so I'll have him run memtest86+).