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To: vireya who wrote (75172)	4/29/2011 9:49:47 AM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

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.

To: vireya who wrote (75172)	4/29/2011 9:54:51 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

I had a problem in the first week of January 2010 with a failed restore on 2 computers, using Tue Image v10. Both images passes validation. But failed to restore. For some reason images I took in the last week of 2009 would restore, after I formatted and partitioned the drives, as you well know one of the first things that happens when you restore, is True Image deletes your C: partition. If it fails anywhere during the restore, you will not boot. After that failed restore on 2 computers in the first week of 2010. I bought a new version of True Image, True Image 2010, and right off the bat, I created a new image, and restored it, to make sure it would restore, and it worked. I have restored many times since then with NO problems. Never did figure out why the 2010 images would not restore using v10. So my advice to you, would be to create an image of your C: and restore it, so you have the confidence that the software will save you when disaster strikes.

To: vireya who wrote (75172)	5/30/2011 7:37:37 PM
From: vireya	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110581

Ive linked this post to the one wherein I talked of my backup problem with Acronis ............................... #1. Is there any way to repair an external drive which has bad areas in it. That is the one which caused all my restore problems or shud I just chuck it .............................. #2. I bot another external drive, yet when I plug it into the USB slot in front of the case, where I had the older defective one, this new one is not recognized by my puter. The old one does get recognized as drive K, but not this new one. what gives with that?! Any help wud sure be appreciated