Image creation: Can't create file!

[denisq]

Dears,

I am trying to create an image of my damaged ntfs partition on another ntfs drive (external drive /dev/sdb1) via my openSUSE system (fully supports writing on ntfs, ...). Unfortunately, testdisk keeps telling me it can't write the image file although space is largely sufficient:

linux-2xxy:/home/quentin # df -h /dev/sdb1
Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sdb1 932G 101G 832G 11% /media/Elements

Here is an extract of the testdisk.log (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3224566/testdisk.log):

Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk /dev/sdd - 160 GB / 149 GiB - FUJITSU MHV2160BT PL
Partition table type: Intel

Interface Advanced
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63
1 P Windows RE(store) 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
2 * HPFS - NTFS 191 89 27 9879 252 37 155648000 [Vista]
NTFS, 79 GB / 74 GiB
3 P HPFS - NTFS 9879 252 38 19457 21 20 153856000 [Data]
NTFS, 78 GB / 73 GiB
Can't create file /media/Elements/Backup/image.dd.
Can't create file!
Can't create file /media/Elements/Backup/image.dd.
Can't create file!

Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards,
Quentin Denis

[denisq]

Actually, I even won't be able to create an image file on my main system partition (ext3). I suspect something to be wrong with testdisk. Version: testdisk-6.13-2.1.x86_64

Any similar issue encountered?