Hi Tom, On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:50:34 +0000 "Tom Crick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Using g4u v2.3, I copied the whole of my old broken laptop's 40GB hard > drive to an image (which compressed to ~22GB). This image currently > resides on a server, but I would like to know if it is possible to > deploy this image locally onto a partition on this machine, possibly > using a loopback device? Basically, I have a new laptop that I don't > want to put the image onto, only want to extract some files from one > of the three partitions on the image (Win XP NTFS, FAT32 shared, ext3 > Linux). Is it possible to use g4u to do this to a local partition? if g4u creates its images with "dd" then it should be quite easy: take some (e.g.) FreeBSD machine and mount the image simply using "mount". I guess Linux and others do the same job just as fine. In the past we used the following method to recover broken IDE drives: 1. Plug the HDD into some machine that runs FreeBSD (or boot a FreeBSD rescue system, or a FreeBSIE boot CD/DVD). 2. dd if=/dev/<broken-harddrive> of=./image conv=noerror,sync (of course, ./image must be somewhere where there is plenty of space available, e.g. another local harddrive, some NFS mount etc.) 3. Use the default blocksize of "dd" (512 Bytes), i.e. don't specify any blocksize on the command line, and the conv= switches are important. By pressing CTRL+T at any given time you can check how many MBytes dd already read. 4. (Not sure if we did this, but I think so): run fsck on the created "image" file. 5. mount the image. All broken sectors (files) will be now be shown as "0 bytes". Those files are probably lost (if you spend more time you might recover them as well). Everything else will be accessible fine and you can copy over your important files as you wish. Regards Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
