Acronis True Image Home 2013 - CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the MFT

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I've been using ATIH 2011 for several years without any problems. Nearly always I use the Boot Disk to create the backup image and occasionally run chkdsk to make sure all is well on my external hard drives. I just tried using the ATIH 2013 boot disk and every time I run check disk it returns the message: "CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap. Windows made corrections, etc..."

I've tried running ATIH 2013 boot disk on several different ext drives and brands, and on two very different computers, same result no matter what. ATIH doesn't cause this problem when creating the image from Windows 7, but I really prefer to use the boot disk as I find it simpler. Since ATIH 2011 worked fine in these setups and 2013 doesn't, I have to believe it's a bug in the boot disk software (Also does the same with the generic boot from the web site).

The disk image created from ATIH 2013 seems to work okay, but it bothers me that it creates chkdsk errors any time I use the 2013 boot disk. Does anyone have a fix for this. Is this problem gone in ATIH 2014?

Sat, 02/01/2014 - 18:41
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Okay, not being patient I sprang for the 2014 version of ATIH. There is good news and bad news. The good news is the problem with MFT errors when creating a backup from the Boot Disk seems to have been fixed. The bad news is the support for USB 3.0 seems to have been removed. I tested it with StarTech (Renesas) and SIIG (TI) adapter cards (chipsets) - not simultaneously of course.

With ATIH 2013 a system backup and verify takes 10 minutes, with ATHI 2014 it takes 28 minutes, nearly 3 times as long. If I change to my USB 2.0 port, it also takes about 28 minutes, so it appears some of the USB 3 drivers must have been removed when Acronis went to the 2014 version.

Seems like I just can't win. I'll stick with ATIH 2011 and the USB 2 speed for now, no advantage for me to install 2014, it'll just go in the pile with the other software that disappointed me.

Wed, 02/05/2014 - 15:31