It was time, after 5 years my 1tb external drive with all of my family photos and all my music crashed. Stupidly enough, i did not have two drives in raid, which i will do in the future.
I successfully rescued the files with dd_rescue to my other 2tb movie drive on my server, however i cannot seem to understand how to mount this .img file.
I am using GNU ddrescue
I really need to get this fixed, otherwise i'm screwed
Here's how i have executed my ddrescue command
sudo ddrescue /dev/sdh1 /media/external/rescue/rescue.img /media/external/rescue/rescuelog
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 1 TB, errsize: 30944 kB, errors: 345
Finished
Here are my test commands
file image.img
image.img: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 2048, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)
fdisk -l image.img
Disk image.img: 1000.2 GB, 1000203091968 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953521664 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2052474d
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
image.img1 ? 6579571 1924427647 958924038+ 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boot
image.img2 ? 1953251627 3771827541 909287957+ 43 Unknown
image.img3 ? 225735265 225735274 5 72 Unknown
image.img4 2642411520 2642463409 25945 0 Empty
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I have absolutely no idea why fdisk shows all these wierd partitions such as 'DiskSecure Multi-Boot' and two 'Unknown' partitions, the parted command gave me information that seemed correct though
parted image.img print
WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions.
Model: (file)
Disk /media/external/Rescue/image.img: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 1000GB 1000GB ntfs
I am not sure if i have the correct flags and such, but here i'm trying to mount the drive
sudo mount -r -o loop image.img /mnt
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 4096 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
Index buffer (VCN 0x0) of directory inode 0x5 has a size (24) differing from the directory specified size (4096).
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 4096 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
Index buffer (VCN 0x0) of directory inode 0x5 has a size (24) differing from the directory specified size (4096).
ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: 0x00000000 size: 4096 usa_ofs: 0 usa_count: 65535: Invalid argument
Index buffer (VCN 0x0) of directory inode 0x5 has a size (24) differing from the directory specified size (4096).
Thanks in advance guys!
ls /mnt
?ls: reading directory /mnt: Input/output error
mount -t ntfs -o loop,offset=1953251627 image.img /mnt
if that doesn't work you will need to cut out the partition following this article.NTFS signature is missing.
, and since parted told me that it started at the 0 byte, i also tried offset 0 but it gave me same error as thesudo mount -r -o loop image.img /mnt
in the OP but only once instead of for times