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7 Corrupted backups in a row.

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I had a catastrophic hard drive failure a thing I used to stress about but because I make regular backups I do not worry about anymore. Until I find out that those backups are a pile of dung.

7 Backups in a row are all somehow magically corrupted even though they are written to the fully functional non broken drive and the backups pre date any hard drive issues I'm currently experiencing. I am unable to rebuild the drive using any recent image nor am I able to at least browse the backup image via the program or windows explorer after I use a fresh hard drive to get the data and pull the files I need.

Either the acronis program says the file is corrupted or every time I try to browse the TIB it launches a popup asking to point to the TIB all over again, and again, and again, no matter what I point it to it continues to prompt.

The PC in question before the failure was running perfectly fine without any reboots or mid backup restarts and even if such a thing happened I hardly think 8 backup cycles in a row were somehow interupted. And the piece de resistance is when I log onto this website I see "Your support program has expired" because this company cannot be bothered to support their own product for more than a year and they have the gall to ask me to Buy an upgrade for a program that cannot even do its one function properly.

Long story short the program was making trash backups, not giving out any error messages or prompts saying "Hey I cant do my one purpose properly" and let me think I was safe when in fact I was hosed.

Does anyone know if I can use a functional program to convert decompress or mount one of the "corrupted" images this program refuses to open and allow me to at least try to find some uncorrupted data instead of just refusing to try?

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Sean, welcome to these user forums - I am sorry that it is under these particular circumstances!

How are you judging that your backups are all corrupted?  
Are you booting from the Acronis bootable rescue media and attempting to restore these to a new replacement disk drive?
Do you have the very latest version of the ATIH 2015 rescue media - build 6613 to use?  If not, this can be downloaded as an ISO image file from your Acronis account online.

I would recommend keeping all of your backup images until it is proven without any doubt that they are indeed corrupted or unrecoverable.

Have you tried running a CHKDSK /F /R against your fully functional non broken drive where your backups are stored - to prove to yourself that there is no issue with that drive too.  Is this an external drive (connected via USB) or a second internal hard drive?  My reason for asking is in case the cause of the catastrophic hard drive failure of your main OS drive was caused by anything that could impact on the second drive, i.e. power supply failure or over heating etc.

Sorry for a list of questions rather than answers here, but just trying to understand  more of the situation that you are facing here.
Also, what version of Windows is involved here?

Please see my comments in post: https://forum.acronis.com/forum/121995#comment-374281 that may be useful to you for checking disk drives outside of Windows.