failed to write to the sector 6.291,511 of the hard disk1
I have the latest version of Acronis True Image Home 2009, 9770 , installed on a HP 67335s using Vista Home Premium. I have use a WD 2500BEV USB, 250Gb, USB hard drive, formatted NTFS.
I have been backing up via the Windows Acronis program but after looking through this on this forum saw it best to do so from the boot disc. But as soon as I select the location I get “failed to write to the sector 6.291,511 of the hard disk1”. The USB is coming up as HD 1.
I ran chkdsk which came up no errors. The next time I selected ignore and it went on to create the partition image but again came up with the errors, this time each ignore moved the sector number on one. Again I ran checkisk this time checking all the disk and again no errors and a further attempt again produced the errors.
I went back into windows and ran the backup from there and it went through with no problem and verification was OK.
What’s the problem know the images from Windows are OK as I had to restore, using the boot disk, last month, so it works in reverse!
Yest that has worked, The back up was a lot bigger than the ones from windows, I didn't look to see if compression was on normal as in windows so may be it wasn't. It verified OK as well. Thanks.
When I attempt to open the backup created with the down load cd it fails. The images created within windows open. The CD created one initially opens a blank explorer window with a green line filling the path but nothing else. A second smaller explorer window opens repeating the original view, if you select the backup here an error of “November3.tib You don’t have permission to open this file. Contact the file owner or an administrator to obtain permission”. When you try properties under security it says you need administration rights but accept OK. The other backups allow you to open security directly. After a lot of messing about I found how to add the users with the same rights as the other backups. But this is crazy if I have to mess about like this for every CD back up!
I experienced the exact same problem as John7.
Error: failed to write to sector... followed by
Error: The logical drive is write protected.
As this was my first time using Acronis, I had downloaded the latest Nov 20 2009 version of software install exe file from the web site, and ALSO downloaded the boot cd that was listed for download.
The errors occured when booting from the downloaded ISO boot CD. I thought that this was the "THE" boot CD and not some other alternate, if things go wrong CD as I later found out.
When I installed the Acronis exe file, and then created the recovery disk, and booted from that, I didnt have any problems.
It is backing up now, but is very slow and looks to be taking 6 hours.
So I just wanted to clarify for those that simply downloaded the software instead of buying physical disks, that the errors were when using the alternate downloaded boot CD, and not when booting from the recovery disk that can be created from the installed software.
Good luck,
I don't know if this helps. I got to this post when I entered 'failed to write to the sector' in google.
My resolution was to try a different USB adapter.
I am trying to write my desktop hard drive to an external USB hard drive. I had successfully been using a CoolMax adapter (with Acronis) which has IDE and SATA ports on it. But about a month ago I bought a 1TB drive with a Rosewill USB dock. Since I have been using the Rosewill dock with Windows I figured I would do a disk image with the dock as well. But after reading this post and seeing the comments about 'drivers' I thought I would switch back to my Coolmax USB and it is working right now. It has not completed but it is at about 20%. When it gave me the error msg it was immediate.
I don't know if the 'drivers' they were talking about is related to my issue but it is working.
David :)