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Recovering ext3 partition after unsuccessful resizing

Hello,
I've tried to resize my home partition using parted. Prior to it I had removed ext3 flags following some advices found on net. Resizing failed and I ended up with filesystem bigger than partition. Then I managed to enlarge the partition using fdisk but it didn't help. When I run fsck on it it prints:

Code:

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2

e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)

fsck.ext2: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...

fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block when using the backup blocks

fsck.ext2: going back to original superblock

fsck.ext2: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda6

Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?

(Same message when fscking from live cd).
I had a backup of most important data and it was a new system, but there where some notes that I had made whilst setting my linux up and it would be nice to have it back.

In future use gparted (from a liveCD) and don't worry about removing the journal.
Try photorec - plenty of threads here about what it does and how to use it.

I know that best way to do such things is by live cd but I haven't had external cd back then :) .
edit: It works for me, thank you :)

Some nitpicks in the original post--maybe not relevant, but:

I was not aware that it would be possible to make the filesystem bigger than the partition.

fdisk does not re-size partitions.

Yes, but parted does. (I was persistent when I shouldn't be)