Re: [Bug-ddrescue] How to properly repair rescued image?

[james bardin]

Hi James,

You do need to use ntfs recovery tools for this.
There's a couple things you can do though:
You could mount the image, and see what's readable. You may get what you need without lengthy recovery (assuming you have ntfs support in the distro you're using)
Mount an image like so:
mount -t ntfs -o loop /path/to/rescue.img /mnt

If you want to try recovery via linux, you can use PhotoRec/TestDisk from 
http://www.cgsecurity.org/  

What I usually use in GetDataBack for NTFS. It's given me good results, and can also work on an image file without writing it to a disk/partition.

-jim


On 6/11/07, James W. Watts <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I used ddrescue v1.3 to copy a crashed Windows XP NTFS partition. The rescued NTFS image file is
> stored on a hard drive with a single EXT2 partition. Referencing the tutorial in '
ddrescue.info',
> I will next copy the image to a different drive for the repair stage.
> 
> The tutorial states, "After the copy is repaired, with e2fsck or some other tool appropriate for
> the type of partition..." I'm confused. Does this mean that the tool for repair needs to match the
> file system of the rescued image file (NTFS in my case) or the file system of the partition on
> which the rescued image file resides (EXT2 in my case)? Please advise.
> 
> If the latter is true, I presume I will be able to run e2fsck against the image for repair. If the
> former is true, I'm not sure how to repair the image. Would I need to copy the image to an
> NTFS-formatted hard drive, mount that HD in an XP machine, then run an NTFS partition repair tool?
> I've looked for such a tool that is Linux-based (e.g. ntfsck), but it does not yet exist.
> 
> How do I properly repair my rescued NTFS image that is living on an EXT2 partitioned hard drive?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
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