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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Is that possible I can read the content of a NTFS image created by Clonezilla ?

Is that possible I can read the content of a NTFS image created by Clonezilla ? Yes, but it's not straightforward. Here you are:
Method 1:
Use Clonezilla live to restore the image to a virtual machine (e.g. VMWare workstation or Virtual Box). Then mount the restored partition to read the contents.
Method 2:
1. Prepare a large disk in Linux
2. Say if your image is /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/, If the image is like /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/*-ptcl-img.* (e.g. /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa), follow this to restore the image.
If the the image is like /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.aa, hda1.ntfs-img.ab...
run
"file /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.aa"
to see it's gzip, bzip or lzop image. Say it's gzip, then you can run
cat /home/partimag/YOURIMAGE/hda1.ntfs-img.* | gzip -d -c | ntfsclone --restore-image -o hda1.img -
Then you will have a "hda1.img" which you can mount it by
mount -o loop -t ntfs hda1.img /mnt

Then all the files are in /mnt/


Read more...
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/43_read_ntfsimg_content.faq#43_read_ntfsimg_content.faq

Don

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