Transferring and mounting .dd image on Windows XP Professional VM

I would use (free) FTK Imager to Mount a working copy of the DD drive to a drive letter under windows. Run free tools against that. Then use ( ...

I am trying to mount a disk image created with DD, so I can read the file system from within Windows. I know the image file is good. I've tested it and I can ...

The Mount-DiskImage cmdlet mounts a previously created disk image (virtual hard disk or ISO), making it appear as a normal disk.

I have followed all the guides on the internet about how to make Windows 10 mount a disk image but it won't mount MY own disk image I made myself.

I am mounting the dd.img off the usb hard drive where it sits. Is this issue cause by trying to mount the image cause by my usb 3.0 hard drive?

You can write it to a drive with dd, or mount it - on linux I'd use kpartx and on windows, something like osfmount or lmdisk.

OSFMount allows you to mount local disk image files (bit-for-bit copies of an entire disk or disk partition) in Windows as a physical disk or a logical drive ...

I need to work with an image created from Linux via ddrescue /dev/sda3 image.img in Windows. Notice that this is an image of a partition, not the entire drive.

I tried using qemu and vhdtool to convert the img to vmd(x) so that Windows could natively mount it, but that only works for some images.

I am looking for options to restore a raw .dd image created via FTK Imager to a Windows machine. So far I have only seen clonezilla, or dd as an option.