[Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue - mounting broken NTFS partition

[Al Grant]

Hi Folks,

My experimenting into ddrescue continues.

I have imaged a drive with two partitions:

address@hidden:~$ sudo fdisk -l /storage/maps.bin 
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Disk /storage/maps.bin: 0 MB, 0 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7287d61d

              Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/storage/maps.bin1               1         475     3590968+   b  W95 FAT32
/storage/maps.bin2   *         476        5168    35479080    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(1023, 239, 63) logical=(5167, 239, 63)

Now I want to mount to loop device the second and larger partition. I have
tried:

address@hidden:~$ sudo losetup -o243712 -r /dev/loop0 /storage/maps.bin

Which went ok, and then tried to mount it with:

address@hidden:~$ sudo mount /dev/loop0 /maps -t ntfs
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/loop0': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/loop0' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

and....

address@hidden:~$ sudo mount /dev/loop0 /maps -o loop,ro -t ntfs
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/loop1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/loop1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

Is it even going to be possible to mount a image of a disk which was so
badly screwed that even in windows it would show the drive, but you couldnt
explore it (it was type raw).

I am going to try NTFS Get Databack, but are there any other linux tools I
can try on the partition, any other ways to try mounting it?

Cheers

-Al






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