unable to mount a drive imaged using dd

I booted BackTrack3, and opened a terminal session to image an iDE
drive with three partitions.
The command was
dd if=/dev/dha of=/dev/hdd conv=notrunc,noerror

This seemed to run fine.
Running "fdisk –l" showed identical partition info.

I created mount points for the three partitons
mkdir /mnt/hdd1
mkdir /mnt/hdd2
mkdir /mnt/hdd3

When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get an error message:
mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount: special device /dev/hdd1 does not exist

mount -o ro -t auto /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount: special device /dev/hdd1 does not exist

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks

On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:37:06 -0700, techrojo wrote:

> I booted BackTrack3, and opened a terminal session to image an iDE drive
> with three partitions.
> The command was
> dd if=/dev/dha of=/dev/hdd conv=notrunc,noerror
>
> This seemed to run fine.
> Running "fdisk –l" showed identical partition info.
>
> I created mount points for the three partitons mkdir /mnt/hdd1
> mkdir /mnt/hdd2
> mkdir /mnt/hdd3
>
> When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get an error message: mount
> /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
> mount: special device /dev/hdd1 does not exist
>
> mount -o ro -t auto /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1 mount: special device /dev/hdd1
> does not exist
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> Thanks

You need to use the '-o loop' option with mount, among others. Here's a link
with the procedure:

http://www.andremiller.net/content/mounting-hard-disk-image-including-...titions


Stef