There must be a way to do this from Linux without resorting to windows tools. Relevant blocks must be written to a file and then used by ddrescue.
On 28 January 2012 19:36, Christian Franke <[email protected]>wrote: > Reon Toerien wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Here's the scenario: >> >> Filesystem is NTFS and contains some mbox mail files. I need to identify >> the blocks on the HDD used by these files and only image those specific >> blocks with ddrescue instead of the entire partition and recover those >> files. >> >> Any ideas, recommendations & links? >> >> > The old (1999) windows tool nfi.exe can be used to map file path names to > logical block numbers and vice versa. Still works on Win7 if disk uses MBR > partition table. The tool was carefully hidden :-) in some OEM support > tools package which is still available here: > http://support.microsoft.com/**kb/253066/<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253066/> > > Christian > > -- Kind Regards Reon Toerien __________________ PO Box 540 Ballito 4420 South Africa Tel: +27 (0) 83 270 2889 email: [email protected]
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