On 02 Mar 17:05, Mark Rogers wrote:
I have a disk image taken around ten years ago. It has a .dsk file extension, which might be a clue to what I used to take the image but more likely is something I picked because it was a disk!
I'm trying to recover data from it but none of my normal tools are recognising it. Eg: $ file myfile.dsk myfile.dks: data $ fdisk -l myfile.dsk Disk myfile.dsk: 39.7 GB, 39711651840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4828 cylinders, total 77561820 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk myfile.dsk doesn't contain a valid partition table
Testdisk isn't giving me any clear results (it can find an ext3 partition but doesn't seem then able to extract anything from it).
OK - so maybe it doesn't know the correct partition type, try using kpartx on it and see if it can get some partitions that way?
(despite it's name, kpartx is nothing to do with KDE, and is a very useful tool).
Thanks,