First .tib of series corrupt
A few bad sectors killed my entire backup.
I have a series of backup files for the HDD (17), the first was lost/corrupt.
I have recovered this with checkdisk/recuva. It has provided me with two files, one is 4kB less than standard 4914304 kB and the second is 32kB. In a hex editor, the first is clearly the first .tib file I needed, as it has the Acronis header.
1. Mounting = BSOD
2. Recover fails, asking for the first file in the series.
3. Can't validate, obviously.
4. Tried friend's copy of 2010, and tried 2011.
When trying to mount/recover, it clearly tells me it was an 80gB harddrive with 30gigs of free space, so it IS seeing something. There has to be a way to get the files out, right? Can I tell Acronis to lay off on the error checking?
Thanks!
They won't open unless I have every kilobyte of the other .tib, apparently. This isn't a technical limitation, is it? Can't we some day see a more passive approach to opening these files?
It sounds like this backup was split into 4GB chunks. Is that correct? If so, there may not be anything you can do. TI requires that the first and last splits be intact. In my experience, it's very unlikely to recover an intact TIB from a corrupted drive. There are just too many things in play to screw it up and everything needs to be perfect.
That's correct, ~4GB chunks due to fat32. I don't know anything about Acronis's compression/etc, but there are ZIP/RAR repair utilities, and I'd like to suggest a similar tool be made for TIB files.. (Edit: Nope, Acronis mostly uses zlib?, out of luck)
Do you think booting into the Acronis LiveCD is worth a try?
thanks all
You can try the CD, but I have no hope it will do a better job with the archive given your problem.