On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file > > > > > system* image. > > > > > > > > > > The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what > > > > > to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot > > > > > records. > > > > > > > > > > alan > > > > > > > > I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times > > > > and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue? > > > > > > > > Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly > > > > love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I > > > > have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that > > > > different? Just curious. > > > > > > Do you have partitions on that memory stick? > > > > Yes. > > OK... It just got through my dense head! He has "multiple partitions" in > his disk image, not one.... > > What I proposed will fail in that case, but will work with "just one" > partition in the image... > > It's a shame too. > > Cheers.
I have mounted through loopback USB stick images that I dd onto my hard drive, but had no partition table (like a floppy sort of thing). I am thinking aloud here, could the OP chainload the NTFS image using Grub - notwithstanding that Vista is using a slightly different booting scheme than the WinXP NTLDR.exe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_Startup_Process -- Regards, Mick
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