Cloning/Recovering to new ssd
I am using Home 2011, with a OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and a Vertex 4 SSD both are the same 128GB size.
My situation: I have a OCZ Vertex 4 as a system drive using Win 7. I want to be able to clone or recover a backup to a different SSD (the Vertex 2) so I have a ready replacement if the Vertex 4 were to fail.
I create a backup of the Sys drive. It will restore to a hard drive but the operation fails if I try to restore to the SSD. The same is true with a clone operation.
Now this is interesting. I have an older backup file of the SSD (before the first Vertex failure.) the does restore and other than being out of date, it works like it should.
What am I missing here? I didn't think that any thing special was required for using an SSD.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Did you select the checkbox for the entire disk, not just individual partitions?
I thought I was doing that, but I wasn't in the disk mode. However I just did it that way (disk mode) and I am getting the same result.
I can select the recovery file, give it a destination. It starts the recovery process and when it reaches the progress bar after about 30 seconds I get "Operation Failed" error. I will try the same recovery later with the boot from CD version of Acronis.
Also, it looks like I may have V11.0 and not 11.5 of Acronis True Image Home 2011. Would that matter? It seems fully functional when working with HDs.
Can you post the log of the failed restore?
Please bear with me.
Looking at the log I see nothing but errors, so something isn't quite right or simply ins't right.
This reminds me of an error I used have where a USB mouse was viewed as a drive and caused a problen in the drive scan. I'll have to eliminate that possibilty later as I am short on time this instant.
The file system or MFT is corrupted in the newer backups, and the older backup works because it was made when the file system/MFT was not an issue. http://kb.acronis.com/content/14260
You may be able to restore the newer backups using sector-by-sector mode. See:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/30858
The file system or MFT is corrupted in the newer backups, and the older backup works because it was made when the file system/MFT was not an issue. http://kb.acronis.com/content/14260 You may be able to restoe the backup using sector-by-sector mode. See: http://kb.acronis.com/content/30858
Okay, I am not in trouble yet. Can you direct me to info about fixing the MFT?
Thanx much for the help
After restoring the backup with the corrupt MBR/file system using sector-by-sector mode, you would then need to run chkdsk /r on the drive.
You stated that you could restore a backup to a spin HDD, but not the SSD. If this is the case, restore the backup to the spin HDD, then run chkdsk on the drive to check and correct any errors on the drive before doing another backup. When restoring to the new SSD, use the tool "Add a new disk" in True Image to clean (initialize) the target drive before the restore.
CHKDSK did the trick. I was able to clone one SSD to the other. I am now testing to see if I can restore from a backup file.
The USB mouse issue may not be a real issue, but it is still there. When I went back to a mouse port mouse the drive scan errors cleared.
Either way I seem to be back in control and will consider this a resolved problem for now.
Thanks for your help. I did not anticipate the MFT problem and would not have translated the error log without your it.