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Acronis True Image Home 2012: "Block bitmap corrupted (0x70016)" when creating image

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I run ATIH 2012 from its boot CD. Trying to back up laptop which dual boots Windows 7 and Linux Mint. ATIH 2012 successfully backs up the Linux partition but fails on the Windows one. I ran a full chkdsk /r on Windows (left it running overnight), tried the backup again - same error. I've tried with 2 or 3 different backup destination HDDs, always same error.
Details extracted from the XML log file:
    Operation with partition '2-0' was terminated. Details: Block bitmap corrupted (0x70016) Tag = 0x8241CADBFCA712F3
    Block bitmap corrupted (0x70016)

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Robert, most of the reports for this problem with 'Block bitmap corrupted' all point to issues on the source drive being backed up, i.e. your Windows 7 drive.  You look to have eliminated any issue with the target drive by trying multiple different drives, and you say you have also run CHKDSK /R on the Windows 7 drive without an error being reported.

One of the hits I read suggested that there could be problems if you have changed the system swapfile settings from being automatic (system controlled) to a manual setting or located on a different partition.

If you have a Windows 7 Repair CD I would suggest using that and trying a Startup Repair to see if that finds any problems with the file system in the Windows partition.

The other suggestion would be to try a different boot CD - you could download a trial copy of ATIH 2016 / register for the trial then download the offline Rescue / Recovery Media (Linux based) and see if that gives the same error - you can run the trial software for 30 days.  When you register for the trial, you can download the software from your Acronis Account.

Thanks for the reply and suggestions.
I should have mentioned that it was a brand new installation of Windows 7 x64 on the laptop, after re-formatting its hard disk. Also, I excluded the swap file pagefile.sys from the backup (as well as hiberfil.sys).

Yes I ran a complete disk check on the HDD at least once, and on the external HDDs I used for destination.

Page file settings are default, i.e. system-managed.

Windows 7 Repair CD - Startup Repair could not detect a problem. I also ran a memory test from this CD, again no problem.

I installed ATI 2016 trial, made and burned a boot CD, started the back up only to be told "This is a trial version of True Image. The selected operations cannot be performed."
It's ATIH 2012 I've paid for so I need that to work.

Robert, I am sorry that you could not use the ATIH 2016 trial media to test this problem - I had forgotten that the rescue media for a trial product only allows a restore, not backup.

The only other suggestion is to download the latest version of the ATIH 2012 rescue media from your Acronis Account as recommended in post https://forum.acronis.com/forum/36716.

What type of disks do you have installed in the laptop, what format is used?

If you do not wish to upgrade to a later version of Acronis, then you may want to take a look at alternative solutions such as Macrium Reflect or AOMEI Backupper which may meet your need.

Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded the latest ATIH 2012 boot disc ISO, burned and tried the backup again with that - same error.

The laptop has a standard (non-SSD) SATA hard disk, NTFS formatted. Hitachi HTS545016B9A300 according to the Acronis System Report.

Robert, when you ran CHKDSK did you include for it to do a disk surface scan to check for bad sectors also?

See http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2245615/acronis-clone-hdd-ssd.html for a similar discussion by another user with some suggestions for trying other tools to see if they also report an error for the drive or whether it is ATIH that only sees the error.

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After another complete disk check of one of the external HDDs, both CloneZilla and ATIH2012 worked on this laptop! This would suggest that the problem was with the external HDD but I had the same problem with 2 others iirc, and after disk checks. Not sure what actually happened. The error log from the failed backup contains the following. ATIH2012 itself and the log don't tell me which drive the error occured on, which didn't help:

"Operation with partition '2-0' was terminated. Details: <indent>Block bitmap corrupted (0x70016) Tag = 0x8241CADBFCA712F3</indent>" level="4" id="9" code="502" line_tag="0x65B5EB7011094703">
<event time="1457190049" module="7" message="Block bitmap corrupted" level="4" id="10" code="22" line_tag="0x8241CADBFCA712F3"/></event>

Robert, can you try to identify which is your partition '2-0' by doing the following:

Open a Windows Command prompt window (run CMD in your Windows partition) then use the diskpart command to list the partitions on each of your drives as shown below:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
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C:\Windows\System32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10586

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DELLSTUDIO

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          931 GB  1024 KB

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    OEM                141 MB    31 KB
  Partition 2    Primary             10 GB   141 MB
  Partition 3    Primary             51 GB    10 GB
  Partition 0    Extended           869 GB    62 GB
  Partition 4    Logical             83 GB    62 GB
  Partition 5    Logical            399 GB   145 GB
  Partition 6    Logical             52 GB   545 GB
  Partition 7    Logical             30 GB   597 GB
  Partition 8    Logical            297 GB   627 GB
  Partition 9    Logical           6785 MB   924 GB

DISKPART>  repeat above steps for each disk identified in the list disk results - this should help narrow down which partitions are not involved and which are!