From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5WGv-0001fJ-Od for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:20:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7HMIgee011924; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:18:42 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7HMDctF005997 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:13:38 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5WB6-0001wn-QO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:14:32 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E5W9c-0006lm-Tl for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:13:00 +0200 Received: from 203-118-166-20.adsl.ihug.co.nz ([203.118.166.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:13:00 +0200 Received: from tom by 203-118-166-20.adsl.ihug.co.nz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:13:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Tom Eastman Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:12:09 +1200 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-118-166-20.adsl.ihug.co.nz User-Agent: KNode/0.9.1 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2764d3c3-8855-46cc-8ae2-4a956257bb7d X-Archives-Hash: 7a7e6b4a718b0703501ca408615e64b0 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list