Unable to Restore Backup
Hello,
I took an image of a failing hard drive, but I am unable to restore the image to a new drive. The image validates properly, but when I attempt to restore the operating system partition does not restore.
The manufacturer did send me a slightly smaller drive, but in the past True Image was able to just shrink the partition so that it fit to the drive.True Image 2019 is giving me a resize fit error, but the bootable recovery media was giving me an index corrupt error.
Any thoughts on what i can do to get this resolved?
Thanks


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So before I go through the effort, do you know if it would be possible to restore it to a larger "temporary" drive. Then reimage again and then restore to the smaller drive?
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Adam, it should be possible to restore the image to a larger, temporary drive, then I would recommend running CHKDSK against all the restored partitions before making a new backup image of it to try restoring to the new smaller drive and doing an automatic resize of partitions.
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Just as an FYI, this did work. I was able to restore the backup to a larger drive and run a check disk. After the check disk completed, I took another backup and was able to restore it to the smaller drive.
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Adam, glad to hear all went well, thank you for the feedback.
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