[dnanian]

Sorry, I mis-read 44MB as 44GB. Definitely sounds like teh image was physically damaged -- I don't see how it could happen either.

No, I wouldn't suggest it was corrupt from the get-go, since you had already looked at it being correct, no?

What I'd suggest is writing your backup directly to a drive, rather than to an image. That way, you can simply look at the files, and you won't have the (typically unnecessary) "indirection" involved with an image.

Since I don't know how a 60GB file could get whacked to a 44MB file, it's hard to know whether Data Rescue can help. But you can try...