How to open .img file created by repair-bde

[salilsurendran]

Hello,
One of my bitlocker encrypted drives got corrupted. I used repair-bde to recover it and save it into an image file which turned out to be 58 gb in size. However, I am unable to open the archive using 7zip or other tools. Do I absolutely have to mount it? Since I don't have a spare HD lying around.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello,
One of my bitlocker encrypted drives got corrupted. I used repair-bde to recover it and save it into an image file which turned out to be 58 gb in size. However, I am unable to open the archive using 7zip or other tools. Do I absolutely have to mount it? Since I don't have a spare HD lying around.

Yes, you have to mount it.
And even that may not work.

 

[elbert]

Here is a Microsoft PDF on data recover that may help.
http://www.runtime.org/howto_datarecovery.pdf