clone failure wiped drive
I used the original boot disk for ATI Home 2010 and it couldn't find my external USB, although it did find another USB drive. I d/l and burned the iso image from the site, same thing. Then I unplugged the other drive, and it found my backup drive.
Great. Didn't happen before, but what the heck.
I wanted to do a new clone, but got a run list corruption error. I rebooted into windows (Win XP sp3) and saw that all the partitions had been wiped!
There was nothing wrong with the disk before. So:
Why did this happen?
Is there a way to avoid it?
Thanks for your help.

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Russell,
I'm a little confused, did you try to restore an image or did you try to clone a disk?
You say you unplugged 'the other drive' and then it saw your backup drive, is this backup drive an external or internal one?
Does the image or the drive you are trying to clone contain an OS and is bootable or is it just a data drive?
What build of TI 2010 are you using?
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Hi Colin,
>I'm a little confused, did you try to restore an image or did you try to clone a disk?
I was trying to clone a drive - actually, the entire hard disk
>You say you unplugged 'the other drive' and then it saw your backup drive, is this backup drive an external or internal one?
I had two USB external drives. It only recognized one of them, which was not my backup drive. When I removed it, TI was able to recognize the backup drive.
>Does the image or the drive you are trying to clone contain an OS and is bootable or is it just a data drive?
Yes, the drive I was trying to clone contained a primary active partition, plus an extended partition with logical drives. That's why I used the Acronis bootable CD to boot with, instead of trying to do it within Windows.
>What build of TI 2010 are you using?
Build 6053. I was unable to download the newer version, as the Acronis site said it was unable to process the request.
The wind up was that I booted from UBCD, used a partition program in there to partition the now unpartitioned backup drive, and then used a clone program from there to clone drive C. It didn't offer the ability to clone the entire hard drive, but at least I now have a copy of my C drive on the active, primary partition of the backup drive, so I can boot from that if I need to.
I bought Acronis specifically to clone an entire hard drive. Even when I connected the backup drive via SATA directly to the motherboard, I still got the same error as noted above. I see that I'm not the only one with this problem, and chkdsk/f is not applicable in this case. I've tried it with the drive connected via USB, via SATA, already partitioned, unpartitioned, partitioned and formated. blank, and with data already on it. Each time, it gave me the error and wiped the drive of all partitions.
If you have a suggestion on how to fix this, I would appreciate hearing it.
- Russ
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