Recover from an image file
If you already have a copy of the drive as an image file, DiskRescue finds your files in it without reading the drive again.
When to use this
- You stopped an earlier rescue after the copy and want to search again.
- You want to search with different settings, for example Every kind of file.
- The image was made by another tool, such as GNU ddrescue.
Steps
Open Recover from an image file.
Select Choose file... and pick the image, or drop the image file onto the window.
DiskRescue shows its size. If a progress map lies next to the image, it shows Progress map found and uses it to know which parts could not be read.
Select Continue.
Answer the questions as for a drive: what to recover, where to save, review.
Select Start rescue.
Recovering from an image needs no administrator rights.
Good to know
The progress map uses the same format as GNU ddrescue's mapfile. A map named like the image with .map added, for example card.img.map, is found automatically.