Restore .dd to drive

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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Nooch
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Joined: 09 May 2012, 04:43

Restore .dd to drive

#1 Post by Nooch »

I saved a copy of my partition to a dd file using TestDisk. I then tried to do something to recover the drive, which didn't work. Now I want to put the drive back to the state it was using the dd file. How can I do that?

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Fiona
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Re: Restore .dd to drive

#2 Post by Fiona »

TestDisk doesn't restore an image.
It's only intended to work with and in case if the disk is faulty;
Infos;
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Media_Image
If you want to restore an image, you can use dd.
Infos;
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk
DD is available on Linux LiveCD's;
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd_DE

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