Recovery failed
Been using Acronis true image 2013 for a long time and do regular backups and have restored many times. The pc is windows 7 and the drive I want to recover is my C drive which is on a ssd. Got a problem this morning because windows updates did not install properly so decided to do a recovery of my system. Fortunately all of my data is on other drives.
Put in the recovery cd and booted from it. Validated the backup that I wanted and that was ok. When recovery started it stopped immediately with message' recovery operation failed'.
Could not boot from that disc now, so formatted disk and tried again. Still no good.
What are my options?
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As you look at the new Win 7 installation from inside Windows Disk Management, does it show that the new installaion also added a non-lettered Recovery Partition?
Now, boot from the TI Recovery CD and simulate performing a restore, does the backup show any extra partitons (such as the Recovery Partition) available for restore?
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Hi GroverH,
After installation of Win 7 there is System Reserve and C: Don't have a recovery partition as I built the pc and installed all of software myself.
On this pc besides my C:drive which contains my operating system and programs, there are 3 hard
drives which contain data. All these drives are backed up individually to another large drive. the interval between backup dependant on how frequently the data on them is used/rewritten. For example my c: drive gets backed up twice a week where as my data may be more or les frequent. I always verify my backup after it is done.
Since my last posting I have done the following..
Now this is very strange. I can recover from a backup done in old series of backups of my C: drive on and prior to October 28th 2013. (I recover MBR system Reserve and C:), but the last one of a new series 13th feb 2014 I cannot. they all pass validation. One thing I remember is that I always used to do my restore from within Windows which would then close for the restore to take place. On a couple of occasions the computer failed to restart before the recovery so since then I have always used the TI disk.
Also strangely I was able , after reinstalling Windows 7 and recovering my October backup, to recover my 7th Feb backup, but since then I have not been able to recover the 7th feb backup again.
This pc is now running using the October backup and since it is running I have been able to copy all of my data to drives on another networked pc for safe keeping.
I have downloaded the latest Intel tools for the ssd and it has the latest firmware and all test show that it is ok and performing correctly.
The strange thing is that recovery of the drive starts after I have selected to restore MBR, System and C:, no progress bar shows and then about 30 sec later I get a message saying recovery has failed. The ssd then shows the partition which was my C; drive as being unallocated. I then have to clean the drive , reinstall Windows 7 and start again.
It looks like there is something wrong with the backup, but TI validated it when it was made and before restoring.
Anyway now that my valuable data is on another pc I can try various things on the problem pc.
Fortunatley I keep a written log day by day of everything that is installed on this pc, so if I do have to go back to the October backup edition all is not lost apart from time and faith in Acronis True Image
Later... Cleaned ssd using diskpart from command prompt. reinstalled Windows7 and October backup.
Within Windows 7. I am running TI 2013 and have validated 13 Feb backup. Now performing a recovery within Windows. Progress to restart is ok. Acronis loader starts and recovery starts (4 of 4)with progress bar showing. Bingo , back to Valentine day's . Must have been a problem with the ssd as nothing else has changed. I am now ok, but will leave this as it may help someone else.
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Curious. When configuring the restore, do you check the box beside the disk or to you select the partitons individually?
If selecting the disk box, all other partitions will become checked additionally.
On the restore screen where the target disk is selected, in the lower left corner, there is the option "Recover Disk signature", are you selecting this option?
I believe one of the things I would do is check the system for file errors.
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Hi,
Before problem resolved I tied both ways. Clicking the top box which selects all, or selecting individually, either all or individually. Made no difference as did with and without Recover Disk Signature.
Now ssd fixed it is ok, but why?
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