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Today I used ddrescue to make an image of a failed hd. I stored this image on a separate partition on my 500 Gb hd. The partition is sda8 and the filename is backup.img.

The image was of an hd that had Windows Vista installed on it. I don't care about the Windows OS on it at all. I simply want to be able to browse the data on it so I can retrieve it and store it elsewhere.

How do I mount this image?

Zanna
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sudo mount Filesystem.img /home/user/MyFilesystem -o loop

is what I used to solve this problem. Below is info from on the loop device from this answer on Linux Questions for those like me who don't/didn't know.

One further possible type is a mount via the loop device. For example, the command

mount /tmp/disk.img /mnt -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop

will set up the loop device /dev/loop3 to correspond to the file /tmp/disk.img, and then mount this device on /mnt.

If no explicit loop device is mentioned (but just an option -o loop' is given), then mount` will try to find some unused loop device and use that, for example

mount /tmp/disk.img /mnt -o loop

The mount command automatically creates a loop device from a regular file if a filesystem type is not specified or the filesystem is known for libblkid, for example:

mount /tmp/disk.img /mnt

mount -t ext3 /tmp/disk.img /mnt

This type of mount knows about four options, namely loop, offset, size‐ limit and encryption, that are really options to losetup(8). If the mount requires a passphrase, you will be prompted for one unless you specify a file descriptor to read from instead with the --pass-fd option. (These options can be used in addition to those specific to the filesystem type.)

Since Linux 2.6.25 auto-destruction of loop devices is supported and then any loop device allocated by mount will be freed by umount inde‐ pendently on /etc/mtab.

You can also free a loop device by hand, using losetup -d' or umount -d`.

Zanna
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Use loop devices. Create a loop device upon that file and mount it as if it where a disk. Also, if the disk was partitioned, use the proper offset of the partition(s).

http://wiki.edseek.com/guide:mount_loopback

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There is an answer here using Disk Image Mounter which has a GUI: How to mount an ISO file? FYI I had a similar problem and realized it was already installed when I right clicked on the .img file (from a damaged CD). Great to recover the one (mp3) chapter which was unreadable.

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