Leopard created .DMG unreadable, need help to restore data

[g9icy]

Hi all,

While installing leopard, i created a dmg of an ntfs partition. I had forgot, at the time, it was NTFS.

The creation of the disk image took a long time, and disk utility showed something like:

"Creating Image: 72 : 2"

 

But it successfully created this disk image. It managed to reduce 30gb down to 500mb...(i didn't know this at the time)

 

I don't recall selecting compressed, I'm certain i chose read/write and it just did its own thing.

Anyhow, now I can't access ANYTHING on the image.

 

I've tried converting it to other image types (read - read/write - sparse, etc) and had no luck. I even tried manually DDing it back to the hdd, with no success. Though when I convert the image to another type, it does restore it to its original size.

 

When trying to mount, disk utility says "no mountable file systems", and when trying to restore I get "unable to make connection to helper tool".

 

I'm close to giving up, but this image has all my coding work from the last several years on it and i can't bear to lose it.

 

Anyhelp would be appreciated,

g9

 

PS - I apologise for duplicating this post, i put it somewhere it was unlikely to get any notice.