Question: how to mount an image created with ddrescue of a partition with ntfs filesystem

[marcello-pietrobon]

The question is about OpenSuperClone, not ddrescue, despite the title.

I'm asking here because after searching internet I couldn't find any working solution, as I've tried.

Essentially I cannot mount an image created with ddrescue of a partition with ntfs filesystem,
and this probably because the source ntfs filesystem is a bit corrupted (though not too much as I never realized the disk was starting failing before I saw I couldn't read a few files).

The issue Is very similarly perfectly described here:
https://superuser.com/questions/1732201/cannot-mount-image-of-ntfs-partition-recovered-through-ddrescue
but when I ran the ddrescue command I dit use the -f option.

Just for information the ntfs partition is in a disk in a laptop running archlinux, but I wouldn't move the hard drive to a windows OS and run chkdsk on it as I would sure loose most of the data.

I wander if OpenSuperClone is able to help with this issue and what would be the correct course of action with OpenSuperClone.

Thank you,
Marcello

[ISpillMyDrink]

OpenSuperClone would not be able to help you with this, just like ddrescue its purpose is to create sector-by-sector copies, working with that clone is outside of the scope of the application.

Mounting is usually not the best way to recover data from a clone (it can even be a destructive operation), dedicated software like DMDE, R-Studio, or UFS Explorer are best suited for recovering data from corrupted sources.