Seagate Disk Wizard won't load backup image
Hello,
I use the Seagate Disk Wizard (which is something like the "lite" version of Acronis I think cause it says Acronis, though I'm not sure which product it directly corresponds to).
This software came with one of the external hard drives I bought, and I use it to back-up the complete image of my desktop every month.
Well what do you know, a time finally came when my desktop caught a virus and while trying to get rid of it I basically made things worse, even though I know what I'm doing. It wouldn't start in the safe mode, only regular, so I could not run a complete scan, and when I tried to fix the safe mode boot issue using windows recovery console and running fixboot and fixmbr, somehow that converted my drive from NTFS to FAT, and then when I rebooted I was getting an error about missing ntldr. I found some suggestions online, nothing worked, I tried to use Partition Table Doctor to fix the boot, but then it just gives me a different error that it can't read the drive after restart.
In any case, I'm pretty much out of options and will have to use this image to recover.
So I went to try and do the recover from disk, and the software is telling me that the image file is not valid. I don't have the exact error right now, but it was saying something like the file is either corrupted (very unlikely) or that it is not a valid archive. Could that be a versioning issue with Acronis products? Because I've used both the boot from CD method to do the image backup before as well as the regular backup while logged into the OS.
I do have another image at my parents house, but that's 4 hours away, and I'm pretty sure the image I have now should be restorable. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Roman
