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Just want to remove all traces of invalid full and incremental backup?

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I had an extra USB external hard drive connected to my computer when I installed my new ATI 2017 on my new computer, which the External Drive had an "OLD full backup" of another computer from an earlier version of ATI.  Before I was able to clean up the external drive, I inadvertently and mistakenly used my new 2017 ATI on my new computer and ran an incremental backup to the original full backup of the other computer, so naturally I have bad data.  I have now removed the external drive with the old and bad data and I just want to start fresh on my new computer and the 2017 ATI. Now when I launch ATI 2017, it still shows the old backup and I cannot delete?  I get the error, "Retry to delete entire PC_Full_B1_S1_V1 and make sure the backup locations is available first."  OR  "Remove Entire PC_Full_B1_S1_V1 from the list"   The backup will be removed from the list, but its files will remain in the location?  Bottom line, I just want to remove all traces of this invalid full and incremental backup and have nothing on my current system showing this bad data?  Kind of hard to write out in sentence form, hope this makes sense.

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Yup - you're fine.

Select the 2nd option:  "The backup will be removed from the list, but its files will remain in the location?"  That will remove it from the acronis console.  Then just navigate to the old backup files and you can delete those manually after that via windows file explorer like you would any other file you wanted to delete.

FYI, your backup is not corrupt - the latest incremental is no good so you can toss it.  But if you want ot keep the old backup (any .tibs prior to that) they should still be fine. The other backups (prior to the latest incremental) are still good and can be imported back into the console, or just hold onto them for posterity and use the bootable recovery media if need be.  

I wouldn't fully blow away that backup until you know you have good new full backup, but you should be fine holding onto the current backup file (minus that new incremental... once you remove it from the Acronis console using the 2nd option).

Bobbo_3C0X1,

Thank you very much, that worked and did exactly what I wanted.  I am hanging on to that backup, just in case I ever need anything in it.  You just never know and I have plently of storage space.  Thanks again for all your help. 

You're welcome!  Fully agree. if space is not an issue, might as well hold onto it (just in case) until you absolutely don't need it or need the space.