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ATI Cannot Restore Image r Creates Corrupt Partition

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After trying several versions of ATI from 2010 to 2013 it cannot restore to a particular drive.

In the windows enviorment it claims that there is not enough free space on a 1 TB drive but will allow it to restore on a 600gb one

When trying to restore in the recovery enviorment with the unpartitioned 1tb drive it creates a corrupt partition that cannot be read. Infact windows then thinks its 5tb untill you clear the partitions off.

If i create the partition first in windows and then look for the partitions to restore the image in the recovery enviorment it shows destination partitions of sizes that i did not set. Usualy 100 mb range.

This is 2013 5551 attempting to restore on a 4 SSD Raid 0 Array with 4k sectors
On the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard using the onboard raid controller
AMD Chipset SATA Controller Driver Version 3.3.1540.35
OCZ-VERTEX4 256.06 GB

Thanks

EDIT: Added screenshot of how it reads the drive after it "restores" the partitions

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You should always do the disk and partition recoveries from the recover CD. Try it and see if your problem subsists.

Thats what I did when I said

"When trying to restore in the recovery enviorment with the unpartitioned 1tb drive it creates a corrupt partition that cannot be read. Infact windows then thinks its 5tb untill you clear the partitions off. "

It clear that the program does not support 4k Logical sectors (Not the same as physical sectors). If I manually edit the raid array in the controller without formatting it and change it to 512 byte sectors the data magically becomes readable. ATI is writting the data as if the sectors were 512 byte and not 4k. This is why the data appears corrupt and explains why it reports the partitions so large.

Yes, ... Your screenshots were showing ATI in windows, this is why I understood you were operating from within Windows.

Does this thread help at all?

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/25558