Mount an image created from ddrescue

Solution 1:

To recover data from a carved image of a damaged drive we usually simply load this image to our recovery software.

For Testdisk/Photorec Install testdisk we simply issue the following command

testdisk image.dd  # to recover partitions
photorec image.dd  # to recover single files

Please consult the very nice tutorials from CG Security on further options and steps to take:

  • Testdisk
  • Photorec

Note that you will not be able to recover filenames, permissions and directories from running PhotoRec. It will just give you random numbered files, but with an appropriate extension.