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[Help] Mount physical disk image as virtual HDD? Need to restore data from bad imaging program! Rate Topic: -----

#2 User is online   jaclaz 

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Posted 08 August 2006 - 11:06 AM

Of course it exists, it is called VDK:
http://chitchat.at.i...re/vdk.html#top

I wrote a pseudo GUI for it:
http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...ts/VDM/vdm.html

Please note that the tool allows to mount a RAW image too.

If you need (for any reason) to specify a disk geometry, you need to make a .pln file and open it with VDK, not the actual file of the disk image.

Contents of the .pln file (a text file you can make with Notepad):

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DRIVETYPE <ide or scsi>
CYLINDERS <cylinders>
HEADS <heads>
SECTORS <sectors>
ACCESS <your raw image file name in full path> <start> <number of LBA sectors>
example:

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DRIVETYPE ide
CYLINDERS 204
HEADS 16
SECTORS 63
ACCESS "C:\image.dat" 0 205632


If you made multivolume sets, you can use multiple "ACCESS" lines:

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DRIVETYPE ide
CYLINDERS 16254
HEADS 16
SECTORS 63
ACCESS "c:\...\image1.dat" 0 4096008
ACCESS "c:\...\image2.dat" 4096008 8192016


You might want to run testdisk:
http://www.cgsecurit...g/wiki/TestDisk

on a thus mounted partition if you have problem accessing data in the image because of a bad partition table (of course, use a copy of the data).

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 08 August 2006 - 11:09 AM



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Posted 08 August 2006 - 03:09 PM

Awesome!! I'm gonna try that now, and hope it'll cope with the broken header. Also primarily hoping it'll be able to cope with the fact that I'd be booted from a LiveCD on a read-only file system... which may be a bit of a stretch if it doesn't load the driver from the media. It'll be fun. :P

Thanks!!

ed: I'm booted from a Ubuntu LiveCD right now since only Linux has proper drivers for my WLAN card... stupid Intel can't make drivers for their own crap, what's up with that?

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