> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Eastman > Sent: 18 August 2005 05:19 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Recovering partitions from an > imaged drive > > > 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!
Probably I need more coffee, but since I haven't ever used loopback and just in case I am being dense, would you mind detailing your steps above when you get a minute? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
