[Discuss] data recovery using Linux

[pw]

hello,

It would get him a NTFS hard disk to mount in windows.

Peter


Rajiv Khaneja wrote:
> Well if he can already mount the image then what would copying the image to
> a new drive get him?
> 
> On 8/31/07, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
>> R. Langkamer wrote:
>>>     Okay so I used a demo application that will recover the wanted data,
>>> but if I can use Linux instead I can save a few hundred dollars. The
>>> demo program had an option to save an image of the "dead" drive so I
>>> did. I looked at the head of the first image file and it looked like it
>>> was simply an image that I could piece together and then mount.
>>>     Well last night I manually cat'd all 60 pieces together into a
>>> single "image" file and then mounted it via loop. I am able to ls the
>>> files, but of course the wanted data is inaccessible.
>>>     Is there a way I can pull the data off this image file? The image
>>> file in question is ntfs based since it came from an winxp install so I
>>> know that could limit what I can do, though I don't know for sure.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>
>> Is it a drive image?
>> If so, just 'dd' the image to a new drive.
>> 'dd' doesn't care if it's NTFS.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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