Accessing data on image made from dd

[protargol]

So I backed up my windows hard drive using dd and turned it into one huge image file. I didn't realize this beforehand, but this image is not an ISO equivalent type. However, it would be nice if I could access everything on the image just by mounting it instead of having to transfer it back to /dev/sda or something. Any tips on how this can be done, or a better way I can back up everything?

[lykwydchykyn]

Have you tried:

sudo mount myimagefile.img somefolder/ -o loop

[protargol]

It kicks back?

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Should I dig through the mount man page?

[prodigy_]

Try the same with -t ntfs option added.

[renkinjutsu]

The problem is that he copied the whole device into a single file instead of copying the individual partitions into different files. So he now has one huge file that contains the MBR/bootloader and all that good stuff, so he's not able to mount it like a regular image of a filesystem.


.. if you know the exact size of the partitions and stuff you can try to dd the partitions OUT of that file into its own file.. but that is a very precise procedure, and i doubt you have the exact partition sizes (down to the bytes) written down somewhere

[dcstar]

So I backed up my windows hard drive using dd and turned it into one huge image file. I didn't realize this beforehand, but this image is not an ISO equivalent type. However, it would be nice if I could access everything on the image just by mounting it instead of having to transfer it back to /dev/sda or something. Any tips on how this can be done, or a better way I can back up everything?

http://www.andremiller.net/content/m...ns-using-linux