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Arsenal Image Mounter mounts the contents of disk images as complete disks in Microsoft Windows.
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AIM fail to mount splited raw of .0000 etc, and did AIM touch .000 file? #13

Closed ccchan234 closed 4 years ago

ccchan234 commented 4 years ago

hi

  1. I created empty blank raw image files by win10+cygwin, by: dd if=/dev/zero of=(anyname).img.0000 bs=1G count=2

thus each is 2GB file.

then i simply use batch to duplicate them into around 1000 files for 2TB HDD, i have to use renamer say BRU to tune the file name, as in Fig-0. ending in .0000, .0001 etc

then I open AIM, it didn't recognize .0000 or .0001 by default, and I manually choose .0000 as the file, AIM asked if treat as raw, ofcoz I say yes. Then result is FIg-1: only 2GB

Then I give AIM another shot, choosing .0001 as the file, and as in Fig-2, it's still 2GB in total.

HOWEVER, I am able to use Hex in the numbering, so for 3alphabets, max is FFF, i.e. 4096 files. each of 1-2GB, fits my need of 4TB to 8TB HDD.

  1. IMPORANT: did AIM touch .000 file?

as asked in previous issue, Currently I WILL include a .000 in the collection, say for some reason.
it's STRANGE that if i got disk.000 disk.001 ... disk.014, each of 1GB, if i open in AIM, choosing the .001 as the file, the outcome is a 15GB disk, which mean the disk.000 is included in the collection by AIM.

It is an ESSENTIAL question for this. becoz later I may use some rescue softwares like , say getdataback etc for it and suppose GDB start with .000.

case 1: IF AIM DO touch .000, then I think it's fine, so both AIM and GDB start from .000, and likely will find the MBR etc (I am a layman, not programmer), in .000. Perfect.

case 2: IF AIM DONOT touch .000 then there is a risk for me and I wanna seek HELP. so in this case, AIM start with .001, I suppose MBR is put in .001 then? What if I use GDB to load from .000? will GDB think (as .000 is untouched, it is all 00) the whole collection is a BLANK?

obviously i could manually rename the files to begin /w .001 when I use AIM and rename them to begin /w .000 when I use GDB, but with HEX naming, there is some chance the files are mixed up--- some file manager sort 0123456789ABCDEF (e.g. BRU) and some sort by 0ABCDEF123456789! (e.g. windows file manager)

  1. ps: how do AIM sort the 0-9 and ABCDEF? that info may help, thx

hope wont be too much of trouble by asking these. thanks.

And everybody take care!

0-file-list 1-0000-fail 2-0001-fail

LTRData commented 4 years ago

  1. Any particular reason why you use dd for this? It is possible to create a new file with a specified size using fsutil. For example, to create a 2 GB file: fsutil file createnew file.000 2147483648 I would think this could save you some time when creating those files. Preferably in your case, use it in a loop in a batch file instead of creating one file and copying that to other files.

  2. You are right, I did not think of the GUI here. The GUI requires an extension of .001 specifically to detect a multi-part raw image. The command line version aim_cli.exe can be used to mount .0001 etc files though. aim_cli /mount /filename=test.0001 /provider=multipartraw

And maybe I was not clear about it previously but yes, it will use a .000 if there is such a file. But in the GUI you would still need to point it to the .001 file to mount. It will automatically detect all files starting with .000 though.

  1. Maybe I was not clear about this previously either, but it will use a strict ASCII value ordering of the files. That means that it sorts 0-9 first and then A-Z, so effectively 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
ccchan234 commented 4 years ago

hi, thx for reply.

1. thx for intro to fsutil, as a layman i use the teachings i found on internet

  1. i'll stick with GUI and the .hex naming then, at the moment I think i will stick to 4TB and 8TB HDD in near future.

thank you., i'll close the issue.