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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
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