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To: thecow who wrote (70221)	5/15/2010 5:00:20 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Failed restored images suck big time. Lots of work. Even though I can restore images 100% perfect on my desktop and notebook with TI 2010, I still get nervous just before the image has finished restoring, as the last time I had 2 failed images with TI 10.0, they failed at the 3 second left mark. Then the work began. Have done a lot of restores with TI 2010 since the failed restores with TI 10.0, which I trashed, but still get a bit nervous every time I restore.

To: thecow who wrote (70221)	5/15/2010 5:55:34 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110653

offhand I would question the quality of the media. During image restore there is error checking going on at the same time. If it fails right at the end it typically suggests it failed a checksum sort of error check. If a similar image is stored elsewhere and that restores OK, that would be my suspicion. I would check with Acronis support too. I would ask them also if they recommend any stick above others. A typical restore operation is billions of bytes of data copied in minutes. The disk is just magnetic media that is turned from one direction to another. It's amazing the technology works as well as it does. OTOH It doesn't make sense, if the image is OK copied back to the disc (passes image check) it ought to be able to restore your files from the stick too. Sounds like a question for Acronis to look into -g- They might already know the answer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Way back around 2000 I used to used CD's as backups. Sometimes these would fail subsequent image check. Saving to Hard Drives was always more reliable. They don't degrade over time like many CD's either. For the last two years I have had no image restore failures or image check failures.