TIB Mounting Problem & Garbled up File Extensions
After what I thought was a successful recover, I noticed that the file extension on all restored files had been garbled up. For example, a text file such as README.TXT is now something like README.TXTDLDA97DL. So I contacted Acronis tech support and they suggested I open the TIB in Windows Explorer and manually copy/paste the files back to their original location, but they couldn't give me a reason why the file extension were messed up to begin with. Well, the copy/paste works and the file extension is now correct, but it is very manual and slow, especially for a 60GB TIB file.
I am a C# developer so my plan was to write a small app that will copy the files from one location to another (source --> target). But I need to mount the TIB so I can get a driver letter to open in my app. But when attempting to mount, I now get an error stating "Specified archvive cannot be mounted since it contains no partitions." I've read about this issue in the forums but I didn't see where anyone had a fix or workaround. Does anyone know if there is a workaround for this error, like maybe adding a partition or mounting the file with a 3rd party utility? I tried Virtual CloneDrive but it does not recognize the file. I would also like to know why the extensions were messed up to begin with. A fix for that would be the easiest way to solve this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.... Thanks!


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magic47 - as for the extention corruption, also agree that it's probably a bad or incomplete recovery that occured. There's really no need to write a program to copy as you've done.
If you use partiiton or disk backups, you can mount the .tib as a volume with a drive letter - then, you can run a premade robocopy .bat script to copy from that mounted letter (or some free synch tool - i stick with robocopy as it's easy, comes with Windows and as long as you mount the .tibs with the same drive letters each time, should allow you to use premade robocopy commands stored as a .bat file to automate the task.
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