Cannot restore an image of SSD from HDD. Acronis freezes after reboot.
I have a major problem to use Acronis Home 2011.
I did the full backup of the SSD (OCZ Agility 3 64GB) C: drive (after activation of Windows) and saved it to a 2nd HDD (not SSD).
But when trying to recover it, the Acronis loader freezes after reboot right when the "2 of 2 - Recovering partition" msg appears - the cursor freezes and nothing happens anymore.
When I tried to validate the archive from the bootable media, I get the following error messages:
"Failed to write sector '2560' of hard disc '1'. Direct R/W operation has failed. (0x590001)"
and
"Failed to read from sector '2048' of hard disc '1'. Alligned R/W operation has failed (0x590001)"
I have to press "Ignore All" to proceed, because they repeat over multiple sectors.
I tried doing multiple backups - whole disc and sector-by-sector but all of them result in this error.
Can anyone advice me what to do/try now please?
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Yes, I tried restore from both Win 7 and the bootable media - both many times, it freezes always at exactly the same point.
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If this happens exactly at the same point it point towards a hardware issue on the disk. Run chkdsk /r on the backup disk, make a new image and try to validate again.
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Thank you for your suggestions.
I ran the chkdsk /r on the HDD which contains the SSD image - 0 kb in error sectors (translating from czech Win7).
Then I did the backup validation which claims the backup is valid.
But when I started the validation from the bootable media-based Acronis, it resulted in the errors I described above.
I think that validation also performed some simulation of the actual restore which this one doesn't.
Is it possible that Win7 can approach both the disks - due to drivers for the motherboard, but the Acronis console which loads after reboot (or after booting from the boot-CD) does not properly configure one of them and therefore cannot read or write?
My MSI MB needs the Marvell 9128 SATA driver, could it be the cause?
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A inadequate Linux driver could be the cause of randoms I/O issues.
Did you try to download the latest bootable media ISO from your account and burn it to a CD (remember to choose burn an ISO file)
When you restore, you should restore from the recovery CD.
Let's try this: copy irreplaceable files from the SSD to another disk for safekeeping. Before you restore from the CD, choose add new disk, select your SSD and confirm you want to erase everything on it. When ATI proposes to create a partition in the add disk wizard, delete the proposed partition and move on. Your SSD is now completely blank. Then restore your image from your backup.
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I'm back after a 3rd install of Win7 this weekend :-)
Here's what happened:
I downloaded and burned the latest bootable ATI version.
After booting from it I clicked add new disk, selected the SSD and confirmed the erase. I deleted the proposed partition using the RMB selection.
After this it read Disk1 "Unallocated", Capacity "55.9GB", Type "Unallocated".
After finishing I got a confirmation that the add new disk operation was succesfull.
I went on to the restore section, selected the backup but when tryin the actual restore I got this "Acronic True Image cannot detect volume 1 of "SSD_Backup" archive".
This is not what I got on my earlier attempts - the difference is probably the deletion of the partition.
Not knowing what to do I tried new add new disk wizard again and to create a partition, but the error was "Failed to read from sector '0' of hard disk '1'. Direct R/W operation has failed. (0x590001)".
Is there anything else I could try?
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Can you move your image to another disk (ideally a USB external disk) and try again?
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Doesnt the error relate to the ssd when Im not able to create the partition on it?
But yes, I will give it a try - Im even considering buying a smaller hdd and get rid of the ssd just to get the ATI to work.
But it pains me because the Agility3 wasnt cheap and the hdd will perform worse.
To check your suggestion I have to buy a bigger ext. disk though so Ill report in some 2 days.
Thank you so far.
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Daniel,
ATI works well with the SSDs. Let's try to determine where the issue is. You could put your backup disk in an external USB enclosure and try. If it works, we know this is a problem limited to your internal disk controller. If it doesn't work, you can still buy an internal disk, put it in the enclosure, move the backup to it and try. If this works then, we know that your backup disk had problems. If it doesn't work, you can put your old backup disk at the spot of the SSD, blank it with add new disk, and try to restore on it. If this works, we now know it was the SSD, if it doesn't work, there is a problem with your motherboard disk controller and ATI.
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That did it!
I borrowed an USB to sata adapter and using it the restore went flawlessly.
Now I'll buy one and use it when restoring - it would be a pain if I would do it every day, but 1-2 times a year I normally plan to use Acronis it's no prob.
Thanks to all for advices, especially Pat L !
Before closing the thread I list my system HW in case some1 has a similar issue and reads this.
SW: Acronis Home 2011
SYS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
MB: MSI Z68A-GD80
CPU: i2500k
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Docking stations also work very well in place of the adapter and easy to use--just drop in the Sata 2.5 or 3.5" drives and I have not had any issues with mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-BlacX-eSATA-Docking-Station/dp/B001A4…
http://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-2-5-Inc-3-5-Inch-Docking-DM-2535U/dp/B004…
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Pat ,
Great suggestion on the USB. I have not tried it yet but will - I have the same problem as Daniel. Error message when restoring - "Failed to read from sector '1,568,405,488' of hard disk '3' Direct R/W operation has failed. (0x590001)".
I am hoping you are able to point me in the right direction on the following please...
1) are there any issues with ATIH 2012 and RAID configurations?
2) how would one go about sorting out the disk controller problem in relation to ATIH 2012 - all my drivers are completely up to-date so I am not sure what else I can do?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide on these 2 questions.
Regards
Derek
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1) For ATI running in Windows, you shouldn't have problems with RAID configurations that are hardware-based. The key is to try the recovery CD and make sure that the Linux version that runs on it can see your RAID volume properly (and not as separate disks).
2) That is a hard one, because it is not easy to change these settings back and forth...
What kind of problem do you have? Symptoms? Configuration?
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