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Data recovery after damaging partitions?

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Oh dear, I've done it this time.

I'd been loving my Intrepid install, but I was interested in checking Gentoo out. So I pop in a live CD, boot it up, check it out for a bit, and then decide to see what the installer is like- with no intention of committing anything to disk.

The first page that comes up is the partition editor, and a dialog pops up asking me if I'd like to repartition with the recommended Gentoo layout. Naturally I meant to click "no", but not noticing where my cursor was I clicked "yes".

Immediately (~10 seconds) noticing my wrongdoing, I ejected the CD and did a hard shutdown, hoping that it hadn't gotten to wrecking my beautiful Ubuntu partition yet.

To my dismay upon a reboot, GRUB gave me "Error 15", and upon booting a live CD the partition editor displayed 3 partitions: one small ext3, one swap, and 30something gigs of "unknown". I'm assuming this is the data it hadn't gotten to wrecking yet...

Can I save my data somehow?