11-22-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Corona688
What is "best" depends
entirely on what you're trying to do.
I have a suspicion you need data-recovery as much as a disk image... most any basic linux livecd can make a disk image with
dd, but if the disk's in trouble the image will reflect any errors in it too. On the other hand, "smarter" programs which understand the filesystem being copied and don't bother copying empty space may break down completely when they try to digest corrupted data.
I know lots of special-purpose solutions, I tend not to look for or use commercial ones.
Sometimes I use a
udpcast boot-CD to image disks over a network. It's simple, effective, and menu-driven. You can download their basic ISO image, or build your own with all the frills with their web-based ISO generator. You can also boot it over PXE.
I also use Gentoo livecd's for more complex problems, or dying disks. I'm used to the Linux environment, so I'm quite happy with booting a Linux livecd and using the
dd,
dd_rescue(similar to dd, but handles block errors better),
udp-sender/udp-receiver and/or
ntfsclone applications in concert to do what I want.
Yes you are correct I am trying to recover data off of a damaged ntfs system. I know the data is still there thx to testdisk. NTFS has a lovely limitation that only lets you recover your first 10 folders. I have many more folders than that.
I'm comfortable using a Linux Live cd. I have no problem with that. Is dd_rescue better than ntfsclone?
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mic-chroot
MIC-CHROOT(1) General Commands Manual MIC-CHROOT(1)
NAME
mc-chroot - chroot into a live image in order to do some changes
SYNOPSIS
mic-chroot [options] <image|image fs>
<image> is a live image file name, <image fs> is a directory path which
contains the whole file system unpacked from a live image.
DESCRIPTION
mic-chroot can chroot into a live image to do some changes, you can use it to unpack a live image then do some changes, once changes are
done, you can regenerate a live image including those changes you did.
mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for mic-chroot, you can use it if you prefer to use GUI instead of command line.
OPTIONS
--version show version number
-h, --help show this help message
-s SAVETO, --save-to=SAVETO Save unpacked filesystem to the specified path
--unpack-only Just unpack an image, this is used tounpack an image with -s option together
-b BINDMOUNTS, --bind-mounts=BINDMOUNTS Specify bind mount list, for example: -b "/proc:/proc;/:/parentroot"
-c CONVERTTO, --convert-to=CONVERTTO Convert it to the specified type live image on exiting, the allowed value is livecd or liveusb
--convert-only Just convert an image, this will skip chroot and directly convert an image/filesytem with -c option together
-o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR Output directory to use (default: current work dir)
EXAMPLES
Unpack an image to a directory and chroot into it:
mic-chroot -s /my/fs/root
EXIT STATUS
mic-image-convertor returns a zero exist status if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.
AUTHOR
Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding
SEE ALSO
mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1), mic-image-manager(1)
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