Winrar can let you look at an iso file, don't know whether it is
format-dependent or not though

2009/3/26 Daniel Rodriguez <[email protected]>

> Background: I have been brought in to help an organization try to recover a
> server that died. Server is now back up and online. The system had two
> partitions, a C: Drive and D: Drive. When the server was up and running an
> admin would do image backups to a Linux box. These images are in
> <filename>.iso. One is for the C: and the other is for D:.
>
> Issue: When trying to install the C: drive ISO back to the C: Drive on the
> server it is not completing... getting to about 99% and then it stalls. They
> have been using G4L (Ghost for Linux) to create these ISO images. When it is
> 'burning' the ISO image file to the C: Drive I notice that G4L shows the
> following:
>
> *<filename>.iso [FAT]*
> **
> Does the [FAT] mean that it is writting the data back to that partion in
> the older FAT-12/16 format? If so, that would explain why we can't boot that
> from that drive.
>
> Have tried using MagicISO and Virtual Clone Drive to mount the ISO image.
> But when I try to do that, I keep getting an error that the ISO image is
> corrupt.
>
> Would like to do the following; Run G4L and write the ISO to the D: Drive,
> I have C: drive up and running in Windows 2003 Server, and then use some
> utility to look at that data on that partition. Need to know if there is a
> utility that would allow me to 'look' at that drive if it is in a different
> format.
>
> Ideas?
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