mount dd image of and entire disk

mount dd image of and entire disk My grandmas computer crashed and I offered to fix it. It ended up being a borked disk drive, she wants me to see if I can get the files off of it. I used ddrescue if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/storage/diskimage to image the entire drive. Now I need to figure out how to mount the image so I can retrieve the files. When I try to mount the image I get this error Code: [cowgod@ubuntu /mnt/storage]$ sudo mount -o loop -t ntfs ./disk_image2 /home/cowgod/Desktop/drive_image/ ./disk_image2: No such file or directory the output from fdisk -l shows that there are two partitions in the image, but I cannot figure out how to mount the one i need. Code: [cowgod@ubuntu /mnt/storage]$ fdisk -l disk_image You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk disk_image: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x41172ba5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System disk_image1 1 4 32098+ de Dell Utility disk_image2 * 5 4862 39021885 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(4861, 254, 63) Any help is appreciated. Thanks, John

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March 1st, 2008	#2
TheCowGod 5 Cups of Ubuntu Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: California Beans: 15 Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala	[SOLVED]: mount dd image of and entire disk Ok i figured it out. You need to do a fdisk -u -l ./disk_image . Code: [cowgod@ubuntu ~]$ fdisk -u -l /mnt/storage/disk_image You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk /mnt/storage/disk_image: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x41172ba5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /mnt/storage/disk_image1 63 64259 32098+ de Dell Utility /mnt/storage/disk_image2 * 64260 78108029 39021885 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(4861, 254, 63) then take the start of the partition that you want to edit 64260 in this case and multiply it by 512 ie 512*64260=32901120 then mount like this: Code: [cowgod@ubuntu ~]$ sudo mount -o loop,offset=32901120 -t auto /mnt/storage/disk_image /home/cowgod/Desktop/drive_image Hope this helps someone!