[cobbaut]

I have recovered files several times after fsck on a failed partition. I may have a 75 percent success rate with this... did not keep statistics obviously.

Though it could be less, cause I also remember recovering files with foremost on a dd copy of a disk.

[account42]

You'll still be able to recover files - fsck will just recreate the directory. There is a slight chance that if the free list is fucked that this will loose you a couple of more blocks of data but then you're already well into fubar territory anyway.