Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue to .img file...then what?

[andrew zajac]

jubei <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> So my question is, what do I do with the disc image after it's done? 
> Everything I've read says that I should restore it to a new clean drive and
> run chkdsk against it.  But I don't know how to restore it to that drive and
> am worried I'll be in the same boat as I was when I copied drive to drive. 
> Anyone have any ideas on how I should proceed?  THANK YOU SO 
You don't have to write the image back to a drive to use it.  You can mount the image as if it were a drive and pull files from it.  I wouldn't run chkdisk or any other program to try to fix a broken filesystem on the image unless I made a copy of it first.  If you can't mount the filesystem because it is not intact, you can still try to data carve files from it.

See here for
 details:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#head-d6059ccf5604d2fbce38a1274ea79c6c0a2e94fb

I hope that helps.

Andrew

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