Extract Doc from .dd file created by ddrescue?

[mraikes]

I'm using ddrescue for the first time and it seems to have recovered about 80gb from a 250gb drive. But it's all in an 80gb ".dd" file on an external drive.

Can someone tell me me how to use/access the .dd file and hopefully find the single document I'd like to actually recover?

 

[SilverLeaf]

The .dd file is an image file, and you should be able to browse the contents by mounting it. You can do this in linux using the "mount" command. Probably something like this:

# mount -o loop /path/to/image.dd /mnt/recovery

note: you can mount the image where you like, but your mountpoint (/mnt/recovery in this example) must already exist.