autopsy cannot read partial ntfs partitions

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Autopsy cannot read partial NTFS disk images. To reproduce, simply truncate an image of a ntfs file system and try to load it in autopsy. Autopsy says "cannot determine file system type" and that's all. On my toshiba system partition, which is 1.5GB, the problem starts happening somewhere between 256 and 512 MB. On a larger partition (335GB), even 1GB of data is not enough to avoid the error.

It sure would be nice if autopsy could deal better with these sorts of images.