Mounting Images in Windows

Nefarious · 19 Nov 2009 at 11:36

I was reading

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9327

And was interested in using the ability to clone an NTFS partition. I was planning to have a USB hard drive with Linux installed on it that could be used to boot as required and then automatically make a compressed image of the laptop's windows installation and save it onto a FAT partition on the USB drive.

I was wondering whether it would then be possible to mount the image in windows somehow, presumeably with 3rd party software such as Alcohol 120%? If so, would it be able to mount a compressed image or only uncompressed images?

.walls · 19 Nov 2009 at 16:42

Nefarious said:
make a compressed image of the laptop's windows installation and save it onto a FAT partition on the USB drive.

You might have problems with that (FAT32 max filesize is 4GB).

I have no idea about your questions though!

Nefarious · 19 Nov 2009 at 19:30

Hmm, good point. I think I might be better off installing ext3 support on the relevant laptops - thanks for the comment

Nefarious · 23 Nov 2009 at 10:23

I was running into difficulty with finding mounting compressed images, till I came across cloop.

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cloop#Creating_a_compressed_image:

I'm still looking into in and it doesn't look like there's a snowball's chance that windows would be able to support it, but it's a start

Any comments or experience would be good to hear

.walls · 23 Nov 2009 at 18:50

There was a thread in here a while back about mounting compressed images... I'll see if I can find it.

EDIT: linky I seem to remember it being a lot longer than that... oh well!