I am trying to browse through an image to recover a file. similar to the process in ghost explor from the ghost days. Ive extracted the .img with 7zip on a windows machine, however when i try to then use 7zip to open the image i get an error. is this the way to be doing this. when took the image off the machine, i set thesize to 0, as i was storing the image on a ntfs volume. however the image size is ~ 100 gb. I have been meaning to use a linux system to see if i can open the image on that... i seem to remember windows having issues with large files over 40 some gig. It is a 64 bit windows machine.
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Due to the format of the image file, it is not (currently? ;) ) possible to directly read the image file. There are other details about this in this forum if you are curious. The currently proposed work around is to restore the image file to a disk in a virtual machine then read from there. If memory serves VirtualBox was used by that poster without a hitch.
Alan
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you're looking in a wrong side. I have 20Gb image compressed using lzma to 8 gb. I also extracted it from archive and cannot open sda.img
… and question is really actual: explorer or virtual disk mounter for windows is very needed feature!!
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it is the most needed feature. another very needed feeature is to be able to restore to new unpartitioned hdd and to restore SMALL partitions from LARGE drive without problems to a smaller DRIVE
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hello,
I am trying to browse through an image to recover a file. similar to the process in ghost explor from the ghost days. Ive extracted the .img with 7zip on a windows machine, however when i try to then use 7zip to open the image i get an error. is this the way to be doing this. when took the image off the machine, i set thesize to 0, as i was storing the image on a ntfs volume. however the image size is ~ 100 gb. I have been meaning to use a linux system to see if i can open the image on that... i seem to remember windows having issues with large files over 40 some gig. It is a 64 bit windows machine.
Due to the format of the image file, it is not (currently? ;) ) possible to directly read the image file. There are other details about this in this forum if you are curious. The currently proposed work around is to restore the image file to a disk in a virtual machine then read from there. If memory serves VirtualBox was used by that poster without a hitch.
Alan
you're looking in a wrong side. I have 20Gb image compressed using lzma to 8 gb. I also extracted it from archive and cannot open sda.img
… and question is really actual: explorer or virtual disk mounter for windows is very needed feature!!
it is the most needed feature. another very needed feeature is to be able to restore to new unpartitioned hdd and to restore SMALL partitions from LARGE drive without problems to a smaller DRIVE
Yes, both of them are the features we would like to add… However, due the the image format, it's impossible to add that. Maybe in the future…
Thanks anyway.
Steven.