Unable to restore partition on SSD
Hi. I'm trying to restore a WinXP SP3 partition on an SSD. I'm booting on Acronis boot media. Unfortunately, I can't restore successfully. ATIH 2011 stops when trying to create partition with error ReqBlocks miscalculated (it leaves the disk as unallocated). But if I try to create the partition using Add a new disk, partition is created successfully. So I either need to have ATIH 2011 able to restore without deleting the empty partition first, or have a fix so that it creates the partition correctly. Thanks in advance for your help.


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I only backed up the system partition. So WinXP is the only partition in the backup. But when I try to restore, if an existing partition exists, ATIH 2011 first delete it. The error appears when trying to create new one for the restore. I can't restore to an existing partition without having it deleted first.
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Yes, this is anavoidable: restoring a partition always erases the target one. I was hoping that you could avoid the error when you don't select the MBR + Track0.
Does your backup validates from the CD?
Did you change your BIOS settings from IDE to AHCI, or SATA for the disk, for example?
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No. I didn't change anything. Note that I'm getting exactly the same error (ReqBlocks miscalculation) when trying to convert the Acronis backup to a Windows backup. So the disk may not be the problem, but the backup file. I have two copies of the backup on two different external disks. Both give the same error. And both are verified successfully. What does this ReqBlocks miscalculation error mean?
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I forgot to mention that I can see the archive content and restore files. But when I restore files, it doesn't restore as a bootable partition, even when running fixmbr and fixboot.
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I googled the RebBlocks miscalculation thing and it looks like an error from Disk Director... Have you used Disk Director to alter your partitions before backing up or something?
Is the SSD replacing a previous disk? If you have the previous disk, try to restore on a disk similar to it (don't restore onto the old one, in case the restore fails and you lose your original data). We are trying to determine if the backup has an issue, or if we are facing some disk issue.
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It's possible that the problem comes from the backup. It's a backup of a partition running on a Mac in Boot Camp. I've removed the GPT partition and changed it to a true MBR disk. I wanted to keep only XP on that disk. Maybe True Image has not done the backup correctly because of the GPT/MBR scheme. But it's strange. I already did this in the past without trouble. If we can't fix this, I will restore the files and repair the installation. That should do the trick.
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