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Restore from incomplete backup?

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All,

One of my hard disks has just failed. Before this happened I tried and tried to persuade ATI 2016 to back one of the partitions on it up, but to no avail. It seems very likely that the "failed" backups, on the backup drive, are the best versions available - but they're not listed as the backup(s) did not complete. 

While I can (to an extent) see the wisdom of this, I'm at the point where half a loaf will be very much better than no bread at all - the last "successful" backup of the partition in question was nearly a year ago.

So: how can I persuade ATI 2016 to restore the data it spent hours writing to the backup drive before the failure occurred? 

Many thanks in advance!

Pete.  

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Pete, sorry but if you have any incomplete backup image files then these cannot be used for any recovery using any tools available from Acronis.

If your failed disk is still accessible then you could try doing a full disk sector-by-sector type backup and use the error handling settings to ignore bad sectors so that you don't have to keep answering pop-up error messages to allow the backup to continue.

I had to do this recently with a failing 2.5" laptop drive that took around 12 hours to complete a backup to an external drive (using rescue media), which I then recovered to a spare drive of a larger size where I could then attempt to recover the data from after running CHKDSK /R etc.  The outcome was mostly successful and allowed me to make a further normal backup of the recovered drive which I then restored to a new laptop drive.