Unable to make image w/ 2009 boot CD and USB drive

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I'm getting a bit frustrated, sorry. I have the latest build of Acronis True Image 2009 from the website (logged into my account). I have tried to create a disk image onto an external USB drive unsuccessfully more than four times, using the Acronis boot CD.

The image creates successfully, but upon validation, it fails with the corrupt image error. Furthermore, each time the boot CD version corrupts the MFT of my USB drive, causing me to lose other files that I have on the drive.

So, I tried to do the same on two other computers that I have access to, and IBM thinkpad, and a Sony Desktop. Same problem on both.

So I decided to wipe clean my external drive, (I used CLEAN from Windows DiskPart), I ran a full check on the drive, etc. The partition originally was a 1TB FAT32 (which you can do on Western Digital), so I switched it to a 1TB NTFS created by Windows. Same result, no success with the boot disk.

If I run True Image 2009 on Windows XP, I have no problem creating an image successfully on the USB drive, and the drive has no MFT/disk errors. But I need to do this with the boot disc.
I have build 9796, and tried both creating the boot cd from the build, as well as downloading the boot cd from the website.

My external drive is a Western Digital 1 TB SATA Caviar, connected via USB 2.0. My motherboard is a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P, which has an Intel ICH10R SATA controller, which has my source drive.

Please help!

Sun, 11/08/2009 - 17:10
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If you make the Image from within Windows, but validate with the bootable CD do you get the same error?
You could download the trial of version 2010, make the boot cd and try the validation with it. The Trial boot cd will not let you make an Image but you can Restore a 2009 Image.

Sun, 11/08/2009 - 17:17
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Thanks for the suggestions, but I still have the original problem.

Tried validating an image (created from within Windows) with the boot cd, and it validated successfully as I suspected. I think the problem is when using the boot disc linux version to write images to an external USB drive.

Upgrading to 2010 is really not an option I am willing to consider now. First, I don't really have an environment where I can install the trial version without impacting my current installation. Also, I hesitate to get into the habit of needing to upgrade every time basic functionality doesn't work. I went through this already from True Image 11 to 2009. What I'm trying to do should work with 2009, there's nothing new here.

Any other suggestions?

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 22:53