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Hard Disk corrupt after full backup

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I upgraded my Acronis True Image Home to 2012.

I do a bare metal backup from a bootable USB thumb drive.

All 3 times I've last done it, the backup appears to have worked, but it leaves my primary drive corrupt - I have to do a system restore from an earlier period.

It seems to have maybe 'touched' a key system file and left it open or in some incorrect state.

The initial restart says there's corrupt files, tries unsuccessfully to recover.

It also appears to mess with the USB config - I have to unplug everything to get it to reboot after that.

Windows 7 64bit on HP desktop PC with all the latest updates applied.

Is this a known issue with using bootable media?

Any workarounds for a bare metal backup?

Thanks,
Matt

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Hello Matthew,

Thank you for taking time to contact us.

To find the exact reason of the issue we need some diagnostic files. Unfortunately, we should corrupt the system once again.

- So, please make sure that the system is completely bootable. 

- Please boot from your flash drive and generate Acronis system report, this option is available in Boot Media (another flash drive may be required to place Acrionis system report to)

- After that, please manage a backup task (you should perform the same actions as you have done previously to reproduce the issue)

- Please make photos of every step (i.e. of every program window) that describes the backup operation management so that we can reproduce the issue in our test lab;

- execute the backup;

- Generate Acronis system report again, so that we can compare the diagnostic files created before and after the backup.

- Send us the files.

You may send the required files via Private Message.

We are awaiting for your response.

Thank you.

I am having similar except my source disk was not the boot disk. It is just regular internal disk where I backed up the files from to external usb drive but the application made my source disk corrupt and I can't access it anymore. I am trying to restore the file but I am not sure what is going to happen as the disk is not accessible.
Please help.

Are you doing Backup, or are you doing Clone? They are very different. Which command are you using?

Not a clone. Just straight backup. The original disk is corrupted after the backup and the files that I backed up can't be restored. I could browse and copy but can't mount the disk. I really don't think this software is upto the task. The Western Digital software that comes with disk performs better for backing up files in my opinion. At least it doesn't corrupt disk.

Run some diagnostics on the hard drive. It would be worth seeing if there are any drive errors.

 Hello all,

Thank you for taking time to contact us.

Tura Adam,

Could you please generate Acronis system report before and after the backup and provide us with these files?

This information will help us to localize the issue.

Thank  you.