[TriLUG] Need help with recovering data from a drive

[MrB via TriLUG]

I second that.  I have recovered a few drives and will say, that is the
ONLY way to go.

If you can't get dd to work, use dd_rescue.



B

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> > Sent from my PDA
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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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