On 03 Mar 12:05, Mark Rogers wrote:
Plus: It's a challenge, and I'd like to find a way. The files aren't all that critical (I'm trying to recover them as a favour to someone), but I find it's times like this that I learn lots about filesystem recovery that turns out to be useful later on.
Are you sure it's a full disk image and not a single partition? You could try the "guess the filesystem" game and try:
mount -o loop,ro -t ext2 image.dsk /mnt/thing
(assuming that it was a linux boxen that it was from).
Cheers,