Usijng disk image taken with ZAR

[egamar]

I used ZAR quickly to take off some irreplaceable files I needed immediately from my failed hard-drive. The drive didn’t look too damaged in ZAR, one folder of fragments and one of lost files, but otherwise pretty much intact.

All the symptoms of the drive problem said a simple FIXMBR using the Windows XP Recovery Console would solve the problem.

Just in case, I took a disk image with ZAR.

I used XP’s Recover Console to run FIXMBR, and that made things worse: the disk wouldn’t boot, and ZAR now showed dozens of “lost files” folders.

I followed the excellent tutorial to repair the NTFS boot partition, and that at least allowed my PC to recognise the drive, but it would not access the disk/directory structure.

Anyway: I have this disk image of BEFORE I did all the “fixing”, but I don’t know what to do with it!

• Is there some emulation software I can load it into which ZAR can then access (Not Daemon Tools – the image loads but is inaccessible and I don’t think ZAR works with CD emulation anyway)?
  
• Do I need to copy the image back to the drive? How?
  
• Can ZAR work on the image? (Can’t find a way to get it to look at the image)?

Thanks for any tips!