"Recover operation failed" Can I get back to my original? Or is all lost?
I just spent the entire day setting up my computer in anticipation of creating an image recovery of the drive. Seriously. About six hours to install the fresh operating system, programs, settings, etc.
I burned a boot disk and then performed a full disc recovery to a USB drive. The recover file was successful. I immediately attempted a recover to test the file. It went fine all the way to "two seconds" on the progress bar and then I was presented with a window "Recover operation failed".
I believe I did everything correct when making the recovery media. But that is not my immediate concern. I tried booting the system from the harddrive and was not successfull!!!!!!!!!
Has my failed recovery attempt wiped out all my work? Is there any way to recover what is on the computer's harddrive now so that I can start over and try again to produce an acronis recovery file?
This is not good. If the backup image file will not validate, the recovery can not take place (or succeed). Since you tried to recover to your original hard drive, Acronis wrote the all the information it could to your hard drive overwriting everything contained on the drive previously until it could no longer continue, leaving your drive in a mess. I'm not sure even professional file recovery software could help at this point. More than likely you will have to start over on the system.
I've discovered that. I tried running fixmbr and fixboot via winxp recovery console and fixmbr went ok but fixboot told me there was no recognizible drive formatted. Sure enough another attempt to boot after the fixmbr was fruitless.
I'm running two threads here since they're only somewhat related. Please tell me how to avoid this mess in the future. I'm a beginner. I've read instructions but did not anticipate this one. I want to avoid this issue on the other computer and on this one in the future.
How can I be 110 percent certain that a recovery image is good? Does validation prove it? There does not appear to be a "validation successful" confirmation in Acronis... or it is lacking in my version or installation.
This is EXTREMELY frustrating. I am forever ASTONISHED that there is not a SIMPLE and foolproof way to simply burn a bootable full disc image without all these pitfalls.
It sounds like the restore went through all the way to the end and then got stopped for some read before the MBR and partition(s) were finalized.
Did you save the backup (the TIB file) to a USB drive or did you burn DVDs?
Did you run a validation on the backup? It won't run automatically (it's not the default). I would try validating the backup when booted to the TI CD and see what it says. If you have another computer available you could boot it with the TI CD and see if the backup will validate on it (sometimes the Linux version of TI has problems on certain systems). If the backup validates successfully it should be considered good.
You could also try the restore again and then check the TI log for any details on the error.
Thank you. My blood pressure cannot handle another round of failure. I'm halfway into the system restore right now on the computer. Once that's done it will be another three to four hours to get back to the restore point.
As I've said. I've read the Acronis directions and help files. But I'm a beginner. I don't understand what a lot of the options actually do since I don't have a background in this stuff. I'm really hoping that someone in this thread or the other that I've started will lay forth a comprehensive list of "default" settings that will allow me to just mirror/clone my "C:" drive with no bells and whistles.
I'm the type of consumer who frankly loves the automatic setting on my camera. I'm not overly proud of that, but that's just me. I just want to mirror my hardddrive. That's it. No more. Why programs like Acronis can't simply default to the most foolproof (why isn't validate at finish defaulted to for the beginner?) settings among all listed in the advanced options is a bit heartbreaking.
I'd very very happy indeed, and not darken your forum's doorstep again for quite some time, if anyone would suggest the most straightforward settings on the advanced tab for making a simple recoverable single ISO file of my computer.
Ok, I'm frankly in begging mode here. I'm begging someone.
I've been through the help files, online tutorials, and utube videos related to Acronis, some even expressly for "beginners". In every case it seems that there is some assumption that the audience is involved with some level of IT that requires broader knowledge of the Acronis's feature set. Immediately my head starts spinning.
I know Acronis is infinitely capable of doing simply what I need. Just make two backup ISO image files with boot discs that I can use to replace the contents of my harddrives when required so that I don't have to go through the hours long system install via Hewlett Packard revovery disks, downloading programs, tweaking settings, setting up wireless and networking, etc.
Just two laptops. Not an enterprise. Is there a tutorial SOMEWHERE for me?
I'm begging!!!!!!!!!!
Istanbul,
Did you check Grover's guides?
How to backup: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
How to backup and restore: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618
Yes, I've read all of them.
I still have not impressed anyone enough with my lack of IT capacity.
His guides, while basic, cover many many times more options and flexibility that is needed for the simple procedure that I am trying to accomplish. Scheduling for instance. That is no part of what I'm interested in doing.
This is like asking for instructions on how to unlock a door and being referred to the the homeowner's guide instead of simply showing me the keys, the slot, and the direction to turn. Seriously, what I'm asking is about that simple. Can't anyone just show me the key, the slot, and the option to turn left or right? It's contained somewhere in the guides on air conditioning, heating, ventilation, plumbing, electrical wiring, etc, etc. Why is is this so hard to explain?
How do I burn an image of my hardrive, at this point in time, onto separate usb media, to put in a drawer and bring out for recovery later. THAT'S IT!
No scheduling, no email verification, no compression (beyond a standard default), no sector by sector, file by file accommodations for separate recovery, no multiple platform enterprise solutions..... just one, discrete, image, that can be placed on a blank slate at some point in the future, that mirrors what I have today.
I just got off the phone with my brother who suggests I might be less frustrated with an older version of Acronis or perhaps even Norton Ghost. Older like 2004 or older. Is this possible? His analogy was that I need a single engined Cessna and Acronis 2011 is 747 cockpit. It's just not designed to do anything as basic as I'm asking. Any truth to that? Iv'e asked here half a dozen times now for a simple A/B/C for doing this in Acronis 2011and so far no one has stepped up with the half a dozen or so options and settings and mouse clicks that it would entail. Maybe it's just not possible?
I also have a running TIH 2011 version and have no problems at all...
I backed up the "entire disk" to an external usb drive, did a validate (most important) and put the ext. usb drive away.
Several week later, I test the recovery with a new HD (installed internally) and booted to the TIH CD Boot Disk. You did create a boot disk, didn't you ?
Once up on the TIH boot disk, select recovery, "Browse" for the validated backup (In your case it would be on your ext. USB drive), select it and initiate the recover to the NEW internal HD. If the bacup is valid and you had a good TIH Boot disk, All should be restored. I have done this many times and even to dissimilar hardware with no problem.
All that is absolutely necessary is a good boot disk (CD) and a valid TIH created backup image file.
We would all be interested in yoru final outcome.
Steve
Perdido Beach, AL
Istanbul,
There is some learning curve with imaging software, but trust me, imaging is what you need if you don't want to have to reinstall WIndows, all the updates and all the apps whenever there is a disaster.
If you are OK with, worst case, having to reinstall Windows, you could consider a solution like Genie Timeline. It is as simple as it gets and the pro version includes disaster recovery. Their disaster recovery might not be enough to help you if your disk dies, but should be OK if only your Windows partition gets messed.
All in All, ATI is pretty simple but you have to read the instructions. There is not much mistake you can make when you backup, except not including enough information in the backup. There are a lot of ways of screwing up with recovery or cloning.