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I get the message "Image corrupted" when replacing my backup to the original disk. But I am sure the files are not corrupted, for I used them previously and nothing changed to those files.
Do you have a workaround or a hint to manage this?
I use True Image 11 Home version 11.0.8041
Thanks, Willem

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You could try the latest build of TI 11 (8,101, for example) and see if it works better.

Was the image previously validated successfully from the TI CD?

Has anything changed on the computer (BIOS settings, different backup drive, etc.)?

Hello Willem,

Thank you for using Acronis Products

Also please clarify where is the image located? If the issue still persists please check whether you can mount it, at least you will be able to copy some critical data from the image.

I downloaded the latest version (8082) yesterday, but the results are the same: "image corrupted" when I try to restore it. I checked the image on another computer, and the image seems to bee good. So the problem seems to be in the restoring of it.
I tried to restore from an external harddisk and also from an fixed harddisk: both the same results: "Image damaged".
Could there be a problem with the dimensions of the different disks: I took the image from a 200 Gb harddisk, and I try to restore to a 1 Tb disk? For me it does not matter to loose 800 Gb, but I think I do not get an option during the restore-procedure to choose: wether 200Gb or 1Tb.
Can there be a difficulty with changing the backup-drive? My old drive had a crash, so I took a drive from 1 year ago, with all settings on it, and I try to restore this drive to the 1 Tb drive. The backup from the old drive is made on an external drive.

Is there any chance that there is a solution for my problems?
The system keeps telling me that the images are corrupted: in all situations:
- images made on fixed harddisk or on USB-harddisk,
- made with bootable CD or with application CD,
- old version 8041 or 8082.
- No failure in memory (checked during 18 hours).
What can I do to make the application work as it should?
In the meantime I cloned an old harddisk to another disk and that works well. And I restored some of my data from the crashed drive. So: my data is not the problem in this moment.
But I bought Acronis to be my backup solution, so I want to work with it and trust it.
So: please solve the problem for me.

You said the image was "good on another computer". Does this mean you validated it using the TI CD? If so, then your other PC has either a hardware issue or the Linux recovery environment on the CD doesn't support your hardware properly. Note that if you just mounted/explored some files in the archive, that is not a guarantee the archive is good, only parts of it. You need to validate the entire archive to know that it is consistent and being read into the PC's RAM properly.

Have you ever successfully validated and restored on the PC using the TI CD? Being able to do it with the CD is important since this is the environment that must be used to restore an image of an active partition - Windows can't do it. A validation in Windows is only good once you know that the CD version properly supports your hardware.

You can somewhat check if it is the Linux implementation by downloading the trial TI2010 version and making the trial TI2010 CD. It will let you Validate and Restore an existing archive but not create a new one.