Corrupted backup files not corrupt
I had to change my motherboard and in the process, my system drive failed. I keep three backup images on three different hard drives. When I went to restore my new system drive, ATI stopped and said the backup files were corrupt. It did this for all three backup sets on three different drives. I didn't believe this to be possible, so I put my new system drive and one of the drives with a backup set into a different computer. I booted from CD and verified the backup set as good. Did a restore and installed the restored system drive into my other computer and all worked fine. ATI, however, still says that my backup files are corrupt. I did a brand new backup and when I verified it, ATI said it was also corrupted. I am running Vista Ultimate 32 bit, SP1; ATI Home 10. Any thoughts would be appreciated...
Charlie
Needing to remove an old partition in a 'caddy' HDD, I booted with Norton Partition Magic v8 which reported partition errors in drive #1 and said they could be corrected. This has occureed before so I clicked OK but this time, the message re-appeared so I had to exit. Panic! Neither W7 nor XP Home (dual-boot) would open although all drives were listed on the POST screen. W7 is in 25GB on SATA drive #0 with the remaining c220GB being the Data logical partition. XP is silimar on drive #1 with a Media partition behind. There is a third HDD of 250GB which holds perhaps 15 Acronis Images for the family's 5 PCs. I tried several HDD utilities such as WD DataLifeguard (latest version) which reported all drived OK as did some boot sector 'fixers'. As a last desperate resort I booted to Ubuntu Linux which saw all 3 drives plus their contents. Hoping to make my windows systems bootable again by restoring the appropriate images, I used Ubuntu to copy them to an external USB HDD - which took some time but did seem to be successful. However when I booted in turn Acronis TI v10, v11 or v2010 and tried to restore an image I saw the dreaded 'Corrupt Image' message. The same occurred with every image I tried. I suspect that the partition table of that drive has become deranged and have read that all Windows versions are unable to handle that situation while some other operating systems have no problem (ubuntu?). Suspecting something sinister with drive #3, I disconnected it and everything then booted normally. I did wonder if the Image files were already corrupted or had been altered in some way by Ubuntu's 'Copy and Paste' operation but several smaller files were copied experimentally and are OK in Windows. Has anyone any suggestions please, or is this a lost cause?