Extremely slow restore with True Image Home 2011
I am attempting to restore my disk from an image on my home NAS device. The first restore ran for about 36 hours then said there was a problem and asked if I wanted to continue. I pressed continue and waited a few hours. The backup appeared to be a little more that 1/2 through. I then gave up and started over with a version dated a few days earlier. The estimate I get is '1 day'. Before I started the second restore I confirmed (in Acronis) that the network card was running at 100 MB full duplex.
What can I do? I assume I can move the image from the NAS device to an external USB drive and try to restore from there. I don't have lots of experience restoring from Acronis. I assumed it would last 1-2 hours.


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I went ahead an copied the image to a USB drive. The backup completed but Windows did not initially run. I ended up having to do a repair reinstall on the computer after Acronis finished. It is working now. The Acronis restore still took a long time but it was more manageable. It took around 8-10 hours. I don't know exactly because it finished in the middle of the night. I thought Acronis would restore within a couple of hours. Another thing - Maybe I don't know enough about how to do the restore but I restored the whole disk and it did not boot after until the restore reinstall. I think it should have worked but maybe I need to find some documentation and read up on it. Thanks for your help Pat.
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Greg,
In some cases (I know only some of them from experience), ATI switches to a sector-by-sector restore, which is way slower than a regular one. I understand from others' experience it happens when there is some bad sector on the disk, when you resize the partitions to restore, for example.
If you copy a TIB file, make sure you validate it before destroying the original. In some cases, we have seen a Windows copy change enough a file for a validation to fail.
What do you mean by "The backup completed but Windows did not initially run"? Do you really mean "the restore..."
Some users have this problem with Windows 7 because they backup only the C:\partition and forget the hidden system reserved partition...
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I have XP. I tried to restore the whole disk leaving the partitions their original sizes. There is a system and a data drive but no recovery partition. I did not try to use the sector by sector method. I have run checkdisk from Windows at boot up and from The Ultimate Boot Disk for Windows. It does not appear I have any bad sectors. I did not do a validation of the TIB file.
Sorry I did mean to say 'The restore completed but Windows did not originally run'.
Thanks
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It seemed you did the right things. Not clear to me why you couldn't boot or why it took so long.
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