[TriLUG] Need help with recovering data from a drive

[John Broome via TriLUG]

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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