mounting a FAT32 disk image?

[gandalf3]

i created a disk image of an SD card which i moved a file off, but seemingly got corrupted during the move..

looking at the disk in a hex editor indicated the files still existed, replaced the first characters in the deleted files names (to "undelete" them), and saved as a disk image. however, windows seemingly can't mount a file as a drive, for browsing and reading of the files in it..

how do i go about mounting this on ubuntu?

running 12.04.

[searchfgold6789]

You could do it with the terminal, if you're into that...

sudo mount -t iso9660 /location/of/iso /mount/point

Or you could follow the instructions here to do it graphically or some other way: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountIso

I thought there was an option to mount when you right clicked on it? I dunno, I use KDE. But good luck.
Sincerely,
- R.R. G.

[gandalf3]

sudo mount -t iso9660 /media/New\ Volume/Q3HD_SD\ (E) /home/user/Zoom
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

not sure what it could be..

i'll try one of the graphical methods..

[searchfgold6789]

It looks like the location of the .iso that you specified is not actually an .iso file. It looks like it's probably a folder or another type of file. Try clicking and dragging the .iso file directly into the terminal.

[efflandt]

Is the image just a "partition" on the SD, or the entire SD? You can sudo mount an image of a CD/DVD or partition or filesystem in a file, using -o loop option, but I do not know if that works for an image of an entire drive. In a terminal see man mount then type /loop and keep hitting n until you get to THE LOOP DEVICE.

But unless you reformatted an SD card or dd'd a CD image to it, the default filesystem type would usually be -t vfat, not -t iso9660.

The most common place to mount something in Ubuntu is to sudo mkdir a mount point in /media (or you could create the mount point in /mnt). I added /media/vdisk as a mount point for manually loop mounted image files.

Example of loop mounting the persistent data file (casper-rw) of bootable live/install iso on USB stick:

efflandt@XPS8100-1204:~$ ls /media
SONY8GB  vdisk

efflandt@XPS8100-1204:~$ ls -a /media/vdisk
.  ..

efflandt@XPS8100-1204:~$ ls /media/SONY8GB
autorun.inf  casper     dists  install      md5sum.txt  pool     README.diskdefines  wubi.exe
boot         casper-rw  efi    ldlinux.sys  pics        preseed  syslinux

efflandt@XPS8100-1204:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /media/SONY8GB/casper-rw /media/vdisk -o loop

efflandt@XPS8100-1204:~$ ls /media/vdisk
boot  cdrom  etc  home  lib  lost+found  media  mnt  rofs  target  tmp  usr  var

I was not sure how to mount an entire boot drive image (a slim lxde Debian ARM image to boot a Raspberry Pi from SD, containing /boot and / partitions). But I set up a similar Debian system with lxde in VirtualBox and used VirtualBox to add the Raspian image as another hard drive. Then I used /etc/fstab in the VBox Debian to mount the /boot and / partitions of the image to see what was on them.

[gandalf3]

thanks.. haven't tried anything yet, but it should work now.. (that make sense about the -vfat, instead of the iso thing..)

Thanks again