Does an .img image of a single (logical) partition have partition type "Intel/PC partition" or "Non partitioned media"?
By Emma Terry •
I have an ext4-formatted logical partition /dev/sda8 and an image file sda8.img of it created with ddrescue (following the procedure at for similar reasons). Now I want to recover the file structure of this partition, using TestDisk.
When I run testdisk sda8.img, I get this:
TestDisk 6.14, Data Recovery Utility, July 2013
Christophe GRENIER <>
Disk sda8.img - 195 GB / 182 GiB
Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done. [Intel ] Intel/PC partition [EFI GPT] EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64...) [Humax ] Humax partition table [Mac ] Apple partition map
>[None ] Non partitioned media [Sun ] Sun Solaris partition [XBox ] XBox partition [Return ] Return to disk selection
Hint: None partition table type has been detected.
Note: Do NOT select 'None' for media with only a single partition. It's very
rare for a drive to be 'Non-partitioned'.Is it Intel/PC partition or Non partitioned media?
1 Answer
In almost all cases, only drives have partition tables, not partitions themselves. Since you had an ext4 filesystem directly on that partition, it definitely doesn't have its own partition table. Therefore, you should pick None.
