[gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

[Tom Eastman <tom@cs.otago.ac.nz>]

Hey guys, this is a non-gentoo question but I figure someone on here will
have the answer I seek :-)

My father's laptop (running Windows XP) managed to detonate itself a few
days back and I'm trying to recover information from it.  Before we wiped
the hard drive I loaded a LiveCD and imaged the entire hard drive using
'dd':

        dd if=/dev/hda of=/some/location/on/nfs

So I have a 4.3GB file on my desktop which is the complete hard drive of his
laptop.

So here's my question, if I had just gone 'dd if=/dev/hda1' it would have
been easy to mount the file as a loopback filesystem and get the files off
of it, but since I dd'ed the *entire* disk I have all the extra crud as
well like boot sectors and partition tables and such.  

How can I take this image of ('hda') and mount the filesystem ('hda1')
that's inside it?

Thanks!

        Tom


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