Lazarus in The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) will ressurect such things. See also Help! How do I recover that important file?. Keep in mind that though the information is UNIX-centric, you can run this against your raw device. I used this once to recover some data from an NTFS volumn from Windows NT 4.0 without ever having to convince my Linux computer to attempt to understand NTFS.
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