Application to open Fog images

[Mark Playford]

Hi All,

Been using fog now for about 4 months and I love it. It has made such a difference to deploying PC’s.

My one question is, is there any application to open up an image like ghost explorer to retrieve data out of images.

Thanks
Mark

[BryceZ]

Unfortunately there is no (known) way of modifying the image once it’s been uploaded. The easiest solution is to deploy the image to a machine and make whatever changes before re-uploading.

[Catsrules]

I think he just want to retrieve date from an image with out the need to deploy it to a computer, So just read only access. Is that possible?

[BryceZ]

Because of the nature of the image files, there is no currently known way of any interaction with the image once it’s been uploaded. The [URL=‘http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-FAQ’]Partimage FAQ[/URL] goes into a little more detail, but the short answer is that you need a block device driver that has never been written, or at least has not been made public if it does exist.

[Mark Playford]

Thanks for the replies. You are right, I use it to back up important machines and would have liked to be able to open an images to retrieve users data, like the nickname file that no-one remembers to back up.

[Catsrules]

So I guess you could image a Virtual PC then boot that up and if it will boot. or mount the virtual hard drive on the physical computer.

[viggo]

What i have done is to add winpe to the pxe menu in fog. So when i have made my base image i boot up in windows pe, and save image as an wim file with imagex, and wim files is easy to edit, you have to have a computer with Waik installed thats all!

[Dean211]

In version 0.33 it should be possible if your image is a partclone image. Using a tool called partclone-utils check out the link below. [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/partclone/forums/forum/638475/topic/4603354[/url]