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Thanks Fiona - I've never tried to use a xen vhd under vmware - I've heard it's similar to VirtualPC and can be accessed (when it works) using WinImage which is a downloadable tool under windows which can open various disk images. The test I sent the link to works in Xen as well as WinImage - so far ...

So I'm starting this process by creating a new xen VHD.
Size: 1GB
I will format this with NTFS and place some files on it once I have done so.

At creation time:
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin administ 5120 Apr 23 19:56 /share/XenSRtest/9e8a12e6-9fe4-9e56-7209-fe8d82f1d2ca/277b1393-b896-407d-adee-6c0e2495262b ...

I think I tried it again after I changed the CHS information.
I have to change the CHS information because testdisk somehow doesn't see the real size - possibly because it doesn't see the partition table - but it has to be there as it works - doesn't it?
I think I have tried all the combinations. I ...

I am pretty sure. I did all that last night / thought it would have been included in the log.

I can try again. I'll also post a link to a working vhd file which I have trouble reading through testdisk too. Thanks!

M

PS I am in UTC-7 (pacific daylight) but can stay up late / get up early if it will help resolve this Thanks!

Hi Fiona - I'm not sure I understand but here is what I did - I will attach the log. The file I opened is a working vhd .
The vhd contains a xen 10GB partition with about 1.5GB of data. The file which photorec recovered is 1686109696 bytes.
I can mount it as a vhd in a xen vm and I can open it with ...

Hi Lito - thanks for responding... :-)

I was running testdisk against the vhd file itself.

Neither partition works within testdisk (error on P - at least the way I'm trying to do it)
- while both work in xen itself or WinImage.

I understood heads were zero based? So head 0 to head 254 is 255 ...

Thanks Lito - here's my current "state of the nation". :-)

I have run vhd-util -n FILE on all the vhd's.

Some of these VHD's (created by xcp / xen) WORK i.e. I could remount them in xen.

Some of these VHD's can be explored using "winimage" - but I can't seem to do anything to make them open in ...

Need to sleep. Last post of the night.
The problem is that I want to mount a VHD that doesn’t work under windows. So I’ve been trying to make testdisk work on it so I can scan for / recover files.
I’ve been trying to do that with a WORKING vhd image. So far no luck.
Testdisk seems to not like that a ...

I've seen some people suggesting I can run testdisk directly against an image file.

So far I haven't made this work. Of course a VHD might not be "an image file".

I have a vhd that works in xen. I can load it in xen as a drive on a windows 2008 r2 system. Windows thinks it's a 10GB drive.

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