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Disk Recovery Hangs at Selecting Destinations in Disk Mode

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When I try to perform a Recovery in Disk Mode after selecting Source it hangs on Destination. Works fine in Partition Mode.

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The backup you are attempting to restore would have to be a disk mode backup I believe in order to do a disk mode restore. If backup was done partition by partition then only the partition mode restore would be used to restore.

I tried to restore a backup today and had the same problem. The original backup was created in disk mode. The problem occurs after incremental backups are made. I created a new backup and it restored in disk mode.

As MVP Enchantech has indicated.

A partition mode backup can only be restored in a partition mode recovery.

A disk mode backup can be restored in disk mode or partition mode recovery.

The difference in backups is the controlling factor.
A disk mode backup is where the disk is selected as the object for backup.
A partition mode backup is where the partititions is selected as the object for backup.
Even if all partitions on a disk are selected, the backup is still a partition type backup and will only restore by configuring each partition.

My signature link 3 below, item 2 inside that link shows a disk mode backup being restored as a disk mode recovery.

Your issue has not appeared before as best I have observed.
Is the hang a freeze or a a delay or?
Is the target disk the original source disk or a new larger or smaller disk?
I assume both the source and target are MBR spin type disks?

Is the source backup located on a network disk?

Is the hang a freeze or a a delay or? Hang that forces me to close TI 2014 because it is never able to display the destination drives.
Is the target disk the original source disk or a new larger or smaller disk? New larger
I assume both the source and target are MBR spin type disks? Source GPT SSD Destination Spinner

Is the source backup located on a network disk? No

What size is the spinner? Do you have another target you could test via simulation to see if the problem is the backup or the target. My guess is that the issue is the target disk but that is only my guess. Sorry I can't be of more help.

It's not the target disk. It has something to do with creating incremental backups. The full backup I made restores fine to this target.

One thing you might try would be to mount the full plus inc and run a disk check for errors on the mountted drive letters checking all mounted partitions.

You could also check the source (all partitions) for disk errors.
Use the TI and delete (from within the program) only the incremental backup.
Create a new replacment inc file.
Retry the restore pointing to the new inc as to what is to be restored..

GH5. How to delete backup files using Acronis Backup

GH4. Illustrate Manual Backup Now option or Repeat backups.

Good News! I was able to select disk mode and destinations on all my backups. I wasn't waiting long enough. It takes an extremely long time for the destination list to populate. It is directly linked to the number of incremental backups. What is Acronis TI 2014 doing during this time? It is consuming 30% CPU and 120MB of Memory.