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How can I split a drive image created with 'dd' into separate files for each partition?

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http://serverfault.com – I created an image of a failing drive with: dd if=/dev/sde of=/mnt/image001.dd The drive had only two partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sde2 13 60802 488282112 7 HPFS/NTFS How can I split the image (image001.dd) into two or three files (1: MBR; 2: Partition 1; 3: Partition 2) so that I can mount the filesystems in it? A solution I've found that wouldn't work for me is to use split to create many 512K files, then cat them back together into three files (HowTos)

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Submitted by xskl on 02/25/2012 – Made popular on 02/25/2012

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I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7 on my computer. I would create a new logical partition, and when I run sudo fdisk -l I get:

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 206848 1518526463 759159808 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 1910609

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Fdisk -l /dev/sda gives this outputdevice boot start End Blocks id system

/dev/sda1 2048 206847 102400 7 hpfs/ntfs/exfat /dev/sda2 * 206848 419637247 209715200 7 hpfs/ntfs/exfatRoelof

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currently running Xp Pro on first 30gb partition of hard drive with second 30gb partition formated as NTFS(My Documents). The hard drive has unused partition space of around 20gb. Also have second internal Hard Drive with 20gb FAT32 partition with 80gb unused partition space.

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So I had to gunzip the image (109GB image gzip'd to 25GB) before I could mount it as a loop device.

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I can mount the partition and see all of the files, but they cause problems when trying to view or copy them.