Disk Utility Restoring Error - Device not Configured

Hi all,
A mate has given me a USB flash drive that doesn't work. I tried to create an backup image using Resuce Pro from SanDisk and it came up with a NDIF file. What I then did was partioned an external hard drive and restore using the image as source and the new partition as destination. 2 seconds later an error comes up saying restore error, could not validate source - device not configured. Am I the only one that has this problem or have I done anything wrong during the process?
Cheers,
Keefe

NDIF is an obsolete format. You'd probably have to convert it to some kind of DMG first (Images > Convert.)

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