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Corrupt .Tib file

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I have two different backup files (.tib) that were made on my father's laptop using TI HOME 2010 (about 90% sure that's the version that was used, is there any way to confirm?).

His hard drive died and when I try to restore either backup they fail with the error:

The archive is corrupted. (0x70020) Tag=0xF5F8CBCF76155639

I tried to validate it and it fails with the same error.

I can mount the image and browse it with no problem, so I am not sure what exactly is going on.

Any suggestions or thoughts on how to restore the image? Can anything be done or tried? Any way to decipher the error codes?

Why can I browse it, but not restore or validate it?

Thanks in advance!

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Mike,

The general approach in this case is to try to restore:
- from the CD,
- after copying the archive to an internal drive, if possible.

Aside from this, you are out of luck with a full restore.

Good thing is that you can mount the image and get the content out.

TI writes 4000 checksums/GB into an archive and to restore a complete image every one of them has to compare correctly when the archive is read and the checksums are recalculated. If not the archive is declared corrupt. If you are mounting and restoring selected files, I believe only the checksums relating to those blocks of data matter so if the selected files are not in a bad area of the archive they are recoverable.

AFAIK, there is no way of telling what version wrote an archive (silly) and there is no way of repairing a bad archive.

Pat gave you good advice and if you want to pursue it further check my reply in:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/20431

Thanks guys for the great responses.

I have tried:

1. Copying the archive to an internal disk and restoring - same error
2. Taking the hard drive out of the laptop, connecting to the desktop and restoring - same error
3. Restore track 0/MBR (which appeared to work), then restore files/folders - Get a failed to recover file or folder error repeatedly

So, it appears I am out of luck!

The laptop had XP Home loaded originally (from the factory). I obviously don't have the original disk (as one was never provided). I have the original key (the stickers on the back of the laptop).

Anybody know where I can download a copy of XP Home so I can install it with the original key?

Thanks again for all the help!