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Extremely slow restore with True Image Home 2011

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I am attempting to restore my disk from an image on my home NAS device. The first restore ran for about 36 hours then said there was a problem and asked if I wanted to continue. I pressed continue and waited a few hours. The backup appeared to be a little more that 1/2 through. I then gave up and started over with a version dated a few days earlier. The estimate I get is '1 day'. Before I started the second restore I confirmed (in Acronis) that the network card was running at 100 MB full duplex.
What can I do? I assume I can move the image from the NAS device to an external USB drive and try to restore from there. I don't have lots of experience restoring from Acronis. I assumed it would last 1-2 hours.

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Greg,

Definitely try to run it to a USB disk first. This will ascertain whether you have a network issue with ATI, or some other ATI internal issue. Also, compare the backup speed over the network with a Windows file copy. This will make sure that the network issue is with ATI, and not somewhere else.

I went ahead an copied the image to a USB drive. The backup completed but Windows did not initially run. I ended up having to do a repair reinstall on the computer after Acronis finished. It is working now. The Acronis restore still took a long time but it was more manageable. It took around 8-10 hours. I don't know exactly because it finished in the middle of the night. I thought Acronis would restore within a couple of hours. Another thing - Maybe I don't know enough about how to do the restore but I restored the whole disk and it did not boot after until the restore reinstall. I think it should have worked but maybe I need to find some documentation and read up on it. Thanks for your help Pat.

Greg,

In some cases (I know only some of them from experience), ATI switches to a sector-by-sector restore, which is way slower than a regular one. I understand from others' experience it happens when there is some bad sector on the disk, when you resize the partitions to restore, for example.

If you copy a TIB file, make sure you validate it before destroying the original. In some cases, we have seen a Windows copy change enough a file for a validation to fail.

What do you mean by "The backup completed but Windows did not initially run"? Do you really mean "the restore..."

Some users have this problem with Windows 7 because they backup only the C:\partition and forget the hidden system reserved partition...

I have XP. I tried to restore the whole disk leaving the partitions their original sizes. There is a system and a data drive but no recovery partition. I did not try to use the sector by sector method. I have run checkdisk from Windows at boot up and from The Ultimate Boot Disk for Windows. It does not appear I have any bad sectors. I did not do a validation of the TIB file.

Sorry I did mean to say 'The restore completed but Windows did not originally run'.

Thanks

It seemed you did the right things. Not clear to me why you couldn't boot or why it took so long.