Well, it didn't turn out much good. I lost about 95% of the data that I needed to save. I found a cool program that runs in Windows called r-linux from
http://www.data-recovery-software.ne...Recovery.shtml that allowed me to look at the mess I made after running the mke2fs -S command. Too bad I didn't run this first.
You'd really think that since Linux is so stable and robust as everyone says that someone would come out with a Linux version of tool like this. As far as I know there isn't one because nobody suggested it and I haven't been able to find one.