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[Resolved] Can't backup second data hard drive. Error says "Specified file does not exist."

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Presumably the image file it's supposed to be creating on the backup drive to backup the data drive.

Of course I can't browse to the file it's failing to create on the backup drive. Knowledge base lacks knowledge of this error appearing during backup, but only during recovery when it actually can make some sense.

Issue resolved here.

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Can yo describe what yo are try8ing to do and what happens. it's not clear form your message if your'e trying to do a file backup or partition or disk backup. . .

Sorry about the bad information. I was frustrated and up past my bedtime with the unexpected problem. And thanks for the reply.

I have a UEFI motherboard with a SSD as my boot volume in AHCI mode. I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. My content data (iTunes library, pictures, dirty movies, etc.) is on a separate internal HDD. I'm keeping disk backups of both drives somewhat current on another HDD in an external USB3 enclosure.

When updating both backups. my system drive went just fine, but then the data drive backup failed to update repeatedly with the error message displayed. Finally, I got desperate enough to delete the data drive backup and try and start over, setting up a new backup, only to have the same backup failure again.

At this point, Windows Explorer showed the external drive as having gotten it's disk space back from the large content drive backups which no longer showed up there.

I tried to eject and turn off the external drive but got an error that a progam was still using it, with every program I know of other than Windows and my security software closed. Finally I shut down my computer and turned it off that way.

Upon booting back up, the backup files were shown back there again, but when I tried to open the latest one in ATIH 2012, it didn't want to let me do anything other than "restore," which I wasn't about to do for fear of hosing all my goodies I'm trying to protect.

Finally, as a last ditch, I closed ATIH again, re-initialized (formatted) the external drive with Windows Explorer, removed every backup there from the list in ATIH, and did them over with different backup names and got my backup back going... for now.

Anyone know of a way to keep whatever it did from happening again, or failing that, a less drastic but effective way to recover from it next time?

It might just be there was some corruption on your external drive. Unless it happens again (hopefully not) in which case things to check would be, does it happen if you connect to a USB2 port, is the USB cable a problem, is the drive OK? That sort of thing, it could still be TIH of course.

This post may or may not have some relevance. This procedure might work for you in your backup of files only.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29625#comment-91851

You could try using a diff port, also, run chkdsk /r on the external drive.

re removing a usb drive when you get a message that it's still in use, you can remove it without harm if it is not being written too, regardless of the windows message.

Resolved thanks to Colin pointing me to the backup drive hardware as the source of trouble.

I don't know if the USB3 controller on my motherboard or the driver for same got messed up, the cable to my external enclosure got damaged or if my enclosure itself was a lemon that went unreliable before it's time, but that was breaking it's data connection before it was finished and messing everything up for the massive data backup.

Didn't even try using a USB2 port as all of my back ones are taken by my various toys and I wasn't about to plug and unplug on a front port for backup of a 2TB drive at USB2 speeds, so I just pulled the drive out of the enclosure and put it back inside my computer for an internal backup like I had before I got my SSD and went tinker-happy for a couple of days.

Working well as an internal backup device.

Thanks to everyone who replied to my question.