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Sector To sector Backup OR NOT

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Have a Seagate External Free Agent Drive - 1 TB. Runnind windows 7/64 bits

Today, when I turn it on, it will ONLY show me All my Folders, and when I Double click on the Folder, it will tie up "busy" with the cursor.

Think there is something physically wrong with the Drive, I want to back the entire contents to my 2 TB drive.

What is the fastest way to do the task. Below Link shows the I/O error and sector error as well.
Thanks.

Link To Diagnostic scan on Disk: http://i48.tinypic.com/6elutv.png

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Matt,

Can you post a screenshot or snip of how your task is set up? You can attach the image to your post.

It sounds as though you may have two or more problems.

First, with a full disk image you should only see one 'somename.tib' container file.
Second, there might be a driver problem with the drive.
Third, you might need to invoke the large drive option under the utilities tab(can't recall the exact name as I don't have TIH in front of me at the moment).

It is highly unlikely that you need a sector-by-sector backup and if you haven't selected that and the task has auto chosen this, then there is a disk layout problem.

We really need to see how you've set the task up first though.

Matt,

It appears I misread your original post :( (That's what happens when I scan read posts when I'm at work). I thought you were having a problem imaging to the drive.

There are two things you can do depending on what you want to end up seeing on the 2TB drive.

1. A complete disk image of the 1TB drive. This will allow you to restore to a new drive at a later date if you so wish all the contents and layout of your current drive. From the tib file it will make you will be able to either Explore or Mount the contents and gain access to them. It is possible to write new content to such a tib file but it is not somehting I'd recommend to do.

2. Make a files and folders backup of the drive. This will do exactly what it says all the files and folders will be backed up to a tib file. Again these can be 'restored' to a new drive at a later date. You can Explore this type of tib file.

The time difference between these two methods is negligable, it really boils down as to whether you just need the data that is on your present drive or you want also to have the actual disk layout data and MBR available for another drive.

If you just want to copy the files and folders over so you can access them as you currently do, then instead of using True Image just manually copy everything over, however, this is the least protable way of doing things and it will overwrite files that might have the same name already on your 2TB drive.

Personally, I'd just click on the complete disk option and point it to your 2TB drive and then access the contents via TIH Explorer - if you've enabled integration in TIH you should be able to just double click on the tib file and Windows Explorer will give you access to the tib file contents.