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can't read sector, cancel, continued backup!

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TIH2012 on Lenovo V570 laptop - Win7 64 SP1.
Weird one yesterday - I set up a (full) (non sch) backup of my 4 partition spindle to an external (USB) WD Passport type HD. I turned it loose and it thought a bit and then gave me a "can't read a sector" error(very sorry for slim documentation - do better next time!). I tried Retry with same result. The clicked cancel and went off to do checkdisk (no probs), and then discovered that Acronis was continuing to back up. LOL Backup and verify completed successfully, and opening it as if to restore worked fine. Subsequent backup of a single partition gave no complaints. (it wouldn't dare!)

So I thought I'd ask, is my Passport HD bad?

When I pressed cancel I expected it to cancel but was surprised that it went right on.

This is very minor/low priority - Just thought I'd ask for thoughts!

Loving TIH2012.

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Kris,

I suggest running chkdsk /r on your Passport drive and see what that reports.

Thanks for your time!

CHKDSK reported nothing...

OK, are you still getting the message? If you are, then it might be worth running a RAM test utility for at least 12 hours to ensure no part of your RAM chips are failing. Acronis products push RAM chips to their limits and so can reveal flakiness that other memory intensive programs just gloss over.

memtest86 is the one to download and try.

Thanks again for your time!

I had only run that once. I'm running it again and seems to be running just fine(2/3 of the way through 20gb backup&validate). The prob had occurred right at the beginning. So, prob solved or no prob? ...

I see one difference - the first run with the error , the Passport was connected to a (non-powered) USB hub external to the laptop. I had wondered if that was a prob so this time I connected it right in to the Laptop itself. If so, that could be insufficient power or delay.

Ended successfully - about 29 minutes.

So I think we should consider this solved / closed.

Thanks again!!!