Re: I love you testdisk!

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On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 08:37 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Just wanted to plug testdisk[1] in case others end up in the same situation.
> 
<--SNIP-->
> 
> Richard
> 
> [1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Thank you for your message! I have a disk that had been used under
windoze xp. A few years ago something went wrong with it and I had to
buy a new one. I choose Fedora as my primary distro since that.
Yesterday after reading your message I found the disk on the shelf,
opened computer case and plugged it in. It's impossible to boot from it
and when it's connected as slave Fedora 12 reports smart-errors and
unable to mount it. So, I did:
yum install testdisk
and ran testdisk as root. It sees the disk:
Partition table type (auto): Intel
/dev/sdb: Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) present.
Disk /dev/sdb - 41 GB / 38 GiB - ATA Maxtor 2F040L0
Partition table type: Intel
And correctly sees it's partitioning:
   * HPFS - NTFS              0   1  1  1274 254 63   20482812
     NTFS, 10487 MB / 10001 MiB
   L HPFS - NTFS           1275   1  1  2549 254 63   20482812
     NTFS, 10487 MB / 10001 MiB
   L HPFS - NTFS           2550   1  1  4995 254 63   39294927
     NTFS, 20 GB / 18 GiB

There's a lot of read errors in the log file, but it starts the backup
procedure and creates image.dd file under working system (F12). However
it halts after some time with the following message:
No space left for the file image.
It's strange because there's sufficient space on the drive (9.3 GB in /
and 43 GB in /home, all etx3). I tested it a few times and each time it
hangs when image.dd is exactly of 2 GB in size (to be precise it is
2147483647).
What's wrong with it? How can I restore data from the disk?
Thank you!
-- 
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