Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Tom Eastman wrote: > I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem > to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the > archives). > In case it does not, try this. Since the real partitions usually start > at the second sector (the first being the MBR that holds the > bootloader and the partition table), I guess (iff the hard disk had > only one partition taking all the space) you can extract only the > hda1 partition by dd'ing the file onto another one but this time > skipping the first sector, ie something like > > dd if=hda.img of=hda1.img bs=512 skip=1 > > or so. > > Hope this works.
Thanks, I managed to solve it a different way in the end :-) I loaded up my own physical NTFS partition in a hex viewer, and looked at what byte sequence was right at the start of the partition, then I opened the disk image and searched for that same byte sequence in the file :-) Having found it (at the 32,256th byte) I was able to use 'losetup -o 32256' to offset the loopback device, and the partition loaded up without a hitch! Thanks for your help! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list