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To: vireya who wrote (75172)	4/29/2011 9:49:47 AM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (1) of 110631

Raptech suggested in Acronis to ensure the VERIFY is turned on during setup of the backup. That "helps" to ensure that once backup is done that it is verified to be good - verify does two things - (a) to ensure the structure of the backup is intact; (b) to ensure the medium is error free. Will VERIFY eliminate this problem? Something I never did before, btw YES. Before you actually attempted to "choose and restore a backup" you could have very well done a verify and found out that the verify failed based on (b) above. At that point you have a choice - (1) search for another backup (assuming you have one) or (2) Plan out a way to proceed. There is an app a buddy (TBS) advised me of years ago called "GETDATABACK" runtime.org It helped quite a bit to restore a lot of lost files. This is why I suggested that the moment you "touch" the drive to restore, you can't go back easily if things go wrong. If your verify failed (ie the medium was good but the boot software wasn't working or something else) and you chose (2) above, and contacted the company - and they assisted you, then that was good too. The point is - doing a RESTORE is your last option and as stated (many agree) doing routine or random restores is a very important thing. Need to slow down. Take your time. Check if the backup is okay to restore by validating first, then begin the restore. As others have suggested, and Gottfried does, don't restore directly to the same drive - buy a new one and restore to that. Costs are nothing today. I dug up a bill for a 250GB HDD a few years ago - it was $500. Haven't checked lately but my 2TB was about $110 maybe a year ago. You are a bit paranoid now - but take some time to go through the motion as described and you will be better prepared next time. Fear isn't attempting to restore - fear is when the restore fails and you have lost everything. You are far ahead of most people - you had a crash and understand what can go wrong. Most blindly just press buttons and BELIEVE 100% that when their system crashes, they will be saved.

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