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by mfrade
17 Oct 2018, 11:05
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: How to write a new partition table over EWF files
Replies: 6
Views: 14873

Re: How to write a new partition table over EWF files

Hi Vicky583,
try the xmount command:

xmount --in ewf DellLatitudeCPi.E?? --out raw --cache cachefile.bin mntdir

# --in ewf DellLatitudeCPi.E?? --> input format: EWF followed by *all* image files (E01, E02, ...), ence the ".E??"
# --out raw --> output format
# --cache cachefile.bin --> cache file ...
by mfrade
21 Jul 2015, 23:56
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: How to write a new partition table over EWF files
Replies: 6
Views: 14873

Re: How to write a new partition table over EWF files

Hi again,
I found a solution to my problem. The ewfmount command doesn't support write over EWF files, but the xmount command has an option to provide virtual write through a cache file. I leave here the list of commands I used for future reference:

1)
xmount --in ewf --rw diskB.cache diskB.E ...
by mfrade
21 Jul 2015, 11:58
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: How to write a new partition table over EWF files
Replies: 6
Views: 14873

Re: How to write a new partition table over EWF files

Hi Fiona,
thank you for your reply. Let me explain better what I've done and what I want to do:

1st - I connected the hard disk "B" to a write bloker and then to my working computer. With this setup I can read disk B, but I cannot write to it (disk B is digital evidence, therefore I don't want to ...
by mfrade
20 Jul 2015, 12:27
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: How to write a new partition table over EWF files
Replies: 6
Views: 14873

How to write a new partition table over EWF files

Hi,
I used testdisk 7.0 (on ubuntu 14.04 64 bits) over EWF files (with compression) of a hard disk with a damaged partition table. Testdisk was able to find the correct values of the partition table and I want to write it over my EWF files, so I can use other forensics tools (like autopsy). Is this ...