In Linux, using the cp /dev/sda1 c.img created a file with the image of a hard disk partition with the NTFS file system (size 80GB).

How to connect it in Windows 7 (preferably in readonly mode)?
Arrange embedded tools or free (for commercial use) programs.

Offer programs for iso-images only if you are sure that they are able to work with this image. For example, when mounting using Virtual CloneDrive, a mounted disk cannot be used:

[Window Title]
Microsoft Windows

[Main Instruction]
Windows can't access this disc

[Content]
The disc might be corrupt. Make sure that the disc uses a format that Windows recognizes. If the disc is unformatted, it is unformatted.

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Windows currently does not know how to mount raw image (but since some version it learned how to mount a .vhd-image).

You can use an external program that will present the raw image as a disk. For example: http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html

  • I found the program by some kind of query, or have I already used it? And then, I have only a lot of information on vhd googled. - Qwertiy ♦
  • @Qwertiy: Not used. (Therefore, he began with a comment.) - VladD

I am using Freeware Linux Reader for Windows . It allows you to work with raw images, and with disk containers from virtual machines: vmdk for example. Then it goes to the user in a conductor-like environment to walk through the file system of the "mounted" image and in which case it can save (extract) the file. In fact, the program parsit FS. But the user is displayed as if the image is mounted.

Cons "OSFmount": in the mounted disk \ partition \ image there may be links (Junktion), which can lead to any of the folders of the real filesystem.

  • Yes, there are symbolic links, but in this case, this is not a problem. - Qwertiy ♦