Clone failed. My hard drive is now RAW and not bootable

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I tried to clone my hard drive using ATIH 2012 and it failed. Now my hard drive is RAW instead of NTFS. How can I fix this to make my computer bootable and read my files again? Thank you.

Fri, 07/06/2012 - 07:10
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I don't have encouraging news. I suspect that instead of cloning your working system onto a fresh disk, you cloned the fresh disk onto the working system disk. Result is that you have two unformatted disks.

I suspect that you misidentified the disks when choosing the source and target for the Clone, because the Linux environment enumerates disks differently than Windows does. That's why we recommend that you add a recognizable label to every disk, so you can uniquely identify it without using the drive letter.

Your options at this point: it depends on what you did prior to the Clone. Did you make any sort of system backup, either with Acronis True Image Home or with Windows' own protection? If so, you can use it to restore the working system. If you have no such backup, then you are likely faced with re-installation of Windows. If your system came with a recovery partition (as many Dells, Sonys, and other major brands do) you could restore the system to factory state using that recovery process, rather than manually reinstalling Windows.

After returning to a working Windows installation, you could add back your data files if you kept a backup of them.

My best advice for the future: Do not Clone!

There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they has instead used Backup.

1. Don't use Clone. Do a full disk Backup, selecting the entire disk, and a Restore. The end result will be the same as Clone, but with many advantages.

2. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left column of this forum, particularly ATIH 2012 - Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.

A full disk backup, selecting the disk checkbox rather than individual partitions, includes everything. It includes everything that a clone would include.

The difference is that while a clone immediately writes that information a single time to another drive, a backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility.

Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.

Clone is riskier because we've seen situations where users mistakenly choose the wrong drive to clone from and to, thus wiping out their system drive.

Fri, 07/06/2012 - 16:32
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