[gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

Hi there,

Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed  
I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ 
mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive).

Obviously the intention was that if I b0rked things up I could just  
`dd` the image back onto the laptop and all would work as the  
manufacturer shipped it, but I'd now find it useful to be able to  
take a look inside the image and examine a few files. Is there any  
way to do this, please?

I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of  
partitions on the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS,  
of course. I know that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso / 
mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop`, but is there an equivalent for whole  
partition tables?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advices,

Stroller.

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