Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Testdisk sees what ddrescue does not

[andrew zajac]

It's far from useless.  You can image the drive and mount the partition on the image using an offset.

Assuming you imaged the drive (sdb) to a file named "image" in the current directory, you can do:

mkdir mnt

sudo mount -t ntfs -o r,loop,offset=32256 file mnt

See here for more details:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Mounting%20partitions%20on%20the%20image


--- On Fri, 6/12/09, Ken A Scott <address@hidden> wrote:

From: Ken A Scott <address@hidden>
Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Testdisk sees what ddrescue does not
To: address@hidden
Received: Friday, June 12, 2009, 2:45 PM

I have a troubled disk which won't mount in Linux (or boot up to XP which is what it is).  The 'testdisk' utility correctly indentifies the partitions

(a large 233GB NTFS Windows partition and a small 11GB recovery partition =>  total size 250GB)

and can show actual files on on the windows partition but can't write the partition table to the disk.  ddrescue 1.2-1.3 (on a MEPIS system) with the following command    $ddrescue --no-split  /dev/sdb1  imagefile logfile

says

'cannot open input file:No such file or directory'

 

Since cat /proc/partitions shows a sdb entry  '8  16   244198584'  I was able to start the above command with just

$ddrescue --no-split  /dev/sdb  imagefile logfile

but I'm not sure if it is useful (since I know there to be actually two partitions there).

 

Any advice?

Thanks in advance!

Ken

 

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