[TriLUG] Need help with recovering data from a drive

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Moose Barry via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> The target drive is a terabyte. The source is 500GB.
> Thanks,
> Moose
>
      I think what Steve is suggesting is to create two iso files of
the bad drive (or create one and then copy it) and put them in
different locations; only time you touch the original drive is to
create the iso. iso1 is a backup and iso2 is the one you are doing
your recovering on. If you screw iso2 up, just copy iso1 over it.

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>> On Apr 5, 2015, at 11:53 AM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Picture was stripped.  When you image a drive, it's block level, not file-level so you'll need the target to be slightly larger than the source.
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Moustapha Barry via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>> I have a machine that would not boot. Operating system not found. I tried
>>> to use testdisk without luck. I than used a usb Linux boot stick to image
>>> the drive. I get the error in the picture attached.
>>> Error creating disk image: Error allocating space for disk image file: File
>>> too large (g-io-error-quark, 0)
>>>
>>> I am assuming that the empty space is considered in this image I am trying
>>> to make. I did not use a particular tool but just clicking on the "More
>>> Actions" icon at the bottom of the volume and selecting Create Disk Image
>>> (see second image attached.
>>>
>>> I would appreciate anybody's help on this. I believe that the boot record
>>> was damaged and that imaging the drive will allow me to recover the data on
>>> it. Is there any tool I can use to recover the data on this drive?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Moose
>>>
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