TrueImage 2009 failed to restore from USB external drive. Back to 11.
This is just for the record, to get my experience on line.
I tried out 2009 because I thought the file naming might be improved.
TI 2009 wrote backups to my USB external hard drive, no problem. Verification succeeded.
However it was unable to mount or restore from the backup .tlb file it had created.
I went back to my trusty Acronis TrueImage 11 (build 8101) and am perfectly happy.

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Hello cnmoore and Carver,
Thank you for using [[http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/ | Acronis Products]]
I would recommend you to check backup archives by means of validation tool within the program. If it’s corrupted then follow this [[http://kb.acronis.com/content/1517| KB article]] for troubleshooting corrupted backup archives.
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Hi,
I usually use incremental backup to an external hard drive connected via USB. Recently I wanted to do a full disc restore but although Acronis 10 found the correct tib files, when it tried to do the restore after rebooting it couldn't find the USB drive.
How do I get round this please? The disc I am trying to restore is the active hard drive on my PC. I am running Windows XP and also Vista.
Thanks in advance
Best regards,
Anthony
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Anthony,
It's possible that the drivers required aren't included in the version/build you're using.
Are you using the latest build of TI 10 (4,942)?
Have you tried the quiet acpi=off noapic option detailed in Section II of the Read Before You Post thread?
Is there room on another internal partition (one not being restored) to hold a copy of the image? If so, you could try restoring from there.
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My backups always include Verification at the time they are made. Acronis 2009 verified the backups it made. But it could not restore from them. I'd like to try Acronis 2010 but after my experience with 2009 I'm a bit leery of it. Is 2010 guaranteed to be able to restore from my external 500G Maxtor USB drive? Have you actually tested recovery from external USB drive?
Another thing I'm wary of is continuous monitoring. It tends to prevent the inactivity power down of the external drive. I can't use Acronis defrag for that reason - even when monitoring was supposedly turned off it kept accessing the external drive and kept it awake.
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Today my Acronis 11 started throwing an unhandled exception and had to quit. It can no longer run scheduled tasks.
I think I'll jump ship and go with a different disk imaging program. Bye, Acronis. It was good while it lasted.
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cnmoore wrote:Today my Acronis 11 started throwing an unhandled exception and had to quit. It can no longer run scheduled tasks.I think I'll jump ship and go with a different disk imaging program. Bye, Acronis. It was good while it lasted.
I admire your tenacity at sticking with a problem....... I find 2009 to be the most reliable version for quite some time and that's using either USB external HD or internal slave HD. It works on anything I throw at it including Windows 7 - did a backup and restore only this weekend. What I don't do and some may say this is foolhardy, but I rarely verify the backups. Twice when I have verified twice I had problems following verification and I have no idea why. All I can say of my experience with Acronis is it works simple as that - always do full image backups though.
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Faust wrote:I admire your tenacity at sticking with a problem....... I find 2009 to be the most reliable version for quite some time and that's using either USB external HD or internal slave HD. It works on anything I throw at it including Windows 7 - did a backup and restore only this weekend. What I don't do and some may say this is foolhardy, but I rarely verify the backups. Twice when I have verified twice I had problems following verification and I have no idea why. All I can say of my experience with Acronis is it works simple as that - always do full image backups though.
I'm also one in the "never verify" club .... and yet .... I can't win the lottery. Go figure. :-)
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I have found that backup validation from Windows does not necessarily mean a restore will work.
When I had a major PC problem I had a recent backup that verified fine, so I went to restore the hard drive. When I booted TI to restore the disk image, TI said the .tib file was corrupt! Fortunately I had kept a year old copy of another image that I had used to restore once before and that was proven to work OK. I spent days reloading data and programs to get back that lost year!
Always be prepared for what you think is a good partition archive to go belly up on you! I always make sure I can see my archives in Windows explorer so I can at least retrieve data the long way if need be.
Sounds like the TI 2010/Win 7 ability to boot from .tib would be a good way to check your archive. But I won't be upgrading to either until their intial release bugs are worked out by those early adopters out there!
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The exception I saw wasn't TI 11's fault. The USB disk hadn't been recognized by Windows after a hard reboot.
I continue to be very happy with my TI 11. And judging by the problems seen in the Knowledge Base, 2010 is no better than 2009.
TI 11 forever! :) It has never failed me. Restores are easy and trouble free.
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I am using TI Home v11 Win XP home on an IBM R50e Laptop and am unable to restore from a USB hard drive when using the rescue disk. The restore does not show the USB drive. It works using TI V11 from windows but I want to restore to a new larger capacity hard drive. Any ideas?
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Hello Anthony,
Let me help you.
I may suggest you to use a special version of the bootable media based on ISOLINUX bootloader. ISOLINUX Bootable Media is usually more up to date than the Acronis Loader one. This is due to the fact a new version of Acronis Bootable Media is uploaded to the website more frequently than regular product updates are released.
Please do the following to download the new media:
- Log in to your account (if you do not have one, you will need to create it);
- Once logged in, click My Products & Downloads:
- Scroll down to the registered product and click Bootable Media:
- Click Download:
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Acronis Bootable Media will be downloaded as an ISO file. See Burning an ISO Image.
Please reply to this thread if your hard drive still not detected with a new bootable CD.
Thank you.
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Hi Ilya
Many thanks for your quick response. Your suggestion has solved the problem. A quick further question, if I want to install a new larger hard drive and copy the image from my full backup .tib file to the new drive. Can I add the unused space to this partition with True image Home 11, or do I need Acronis disk director? I have 2 partitions on my current Hard drive, one containing the IBM restore to the original configuration. Many thanks. Regards Anthony
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Hello Anthony,
I'm really glad that you have managed to fix the issue.
You can resize the partition during the restore to utilize all free space. Please check Chapter 6.3.8 of Acronis True Image 11 Home User's Guide.
Note that you should restore your drive partition-by-partition to be able to resize a destination partition.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Thank you.
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