It's far from useless. You can image the drive and mount the partition on the
image using an offset.
Assuming you imaged the drive (sdb) to a file named "image" in the current
directory, you can do:
mkdir mnt
sudo mount -t ntfs -o r,loop,offset=32256 file mnt
See here for more details:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Mounting%20partitions%20on%20the%20image
--- On Fri, 6/12/09, Ken A Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Ken A Scott <[email protected]>
Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Testdisk sees what ddrescue does not
To: [email protected]
Received: Friday, June 12, 2009, 2:45 PM
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blockquote{border-color:#540000;}I have a troubled disk which won't mount in
Linux (or boot up to XP which is what it is). The 'testdisk' utility correctly
indentifies the partitions
(a large 233GB NTFS Windows partition and a small 11GB recovery partition =>
total size 250GB)
and can show actual files on on the windows partition but can't write the
partition table to the disk. ddrescue 1.2-1.3 (on a MEPIS system) with the
following command $ddrescue --no-split /dev/sdb1 imagefile logfile
says
'cannot open input file:No such file or directory'
Since cat /proc/partitions shows a sdb entry '8 16 244198584' I was able
to start the above command with just
$ddrescue --no-split /dev/sdb imagefile logfile
but I'm not sure if it is useful (since I know there to be actually two
partitions there).
Any advice?
Thanks in advance!
Ken
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