[TriLUG] Need help with recovering data from a drive

[Moose Barry via TriLUG]

The target drive is a terabyte. The source is 500GB.
Thanks,
Moose

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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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