[Tutorial] How to mount ext4 images (system, userdata & vendor) in windows
[Tutorial] How to mount ext4 images (system, userdata & vendor) in windows
Follow the steps below to mount ext4 images (system, userdata & vendor) in windows
See the video below or @ https://youtu.be/su2c3cEG_EgQuote:A good number of our members have been asking how to retrieve data from a userdata backup
The data includes pictures, music, videos and all what not
So in this video tutorial, i'm going to be showing how to mount an EXT4 image in windows
EXT4 images can include system, userdata and vendor
So, we're going to be using Disk Internals Linux Reader
Now before we begin, lets check if this images we have here are all in EXT4 format
So, we have a guide on how to check the file system of an image
This is the tutorial guide, you can visit the link or search the forum
So, we can see file system of system.img is in EXT4 format
Userdata is also in EXT4 format But vendor isn't
So we're going to convert vendor to an EXT4 format image
For this, we're going to be using sgs2toext4 file
We'll open this
Now, we'll drag vendor image onto the tool
So, down here you can see its converting
Now once it's done converting you'll see it will start reading 0 B/s
we can now close this tool
This is our EXT4 image
Now lets confirm if this image is really EXT4 format
So here we can see this is an EXT4 image
So we have our images all in EXT4 format now
Now to mount EXT4 images in windows, we're going to use Disk Internals Linux Reader
So i'll launch the tool
On the interface, click on Drives
click mount image tick Raw Disk Images then click Next
Navigate to the location of the images we wish to mount
So i want to mount all three of this
So here we go, this is system, this is vendor and this is userdata
So we can double click to open and check what is inside
But for the purpose of this tutorial, let me go over to userdata
Now in userdata to retrieve your files, you'll goto data that's once you open it, you'll goto media folder
in media folder, you'll goto 0 (zero). zero should normally be your internal storage
So here we can see some of my old files
In this case i want to retrieve
this is what i want to retrieve
so i'll right click
click save
save files
click Next
Now select the directory, the folder where you want to save the file or folders or whatever you've chosen
you can click browse, i want to save them on my desktop
then click OK
click Next
click Next again
Once it's done, you'll see completing the export wizard
click Finish
So we can now close the tool and here's our file
(14-06-2019, 05:34 PM)abdulahi1229 my backup is not in .img format its .backup
cat userdata.backup1 userdata.backup2 userdata.backup3 > userdata_full.backup
$ file system.img.ext4.img
system.img.ext4.img: data
(16-02-2020, 10:09 PM)marquelito hey
when using cygwin to detect file system of the output sgs2toext4 img i get:
Code:$ file system.img.ext4.img
system.img.ext4.img: data
this method including other using svaimgunpack don't work on new firmwares. i'm trying on Z Flip Firmware, and tryed too on note 10 firmware.
please i would be greatful if you could help
thanks