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repairing disk images
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nJm
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Mar 20, 2006, 08:57 PM
 
A friend of mine backed up his iBook HD onto his iPod as a 22gb disk image. While trying to copy stuff back from the disk image iTunes started to sync the iPod which made the iBook crash. The result is an iPod that iTunes says is corrupted and an image file that won't open (the finder says the image file contains no mountable file system).

Is there any way to get into the image file and copy back anything that isn't corrupted?
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Mar 21, 2006, 04:55 AM
 
Try a disk utility on your iBook's disk.

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Mar 21, 2006, 06:14 AM
 
I can't repair the image with disk utility as it can't mount the image.

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Mar 21, 2006, 06:40 AM
 
I realize that, but there's a chance that if you repair the disk itself, it may also repair the image. It's a long shot, but it's worth a try.

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Mar 21, 2006, 06:16 PM
 
I tried it, and it found no errors on the disk.
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