Mounted image not formatted
Windows 7, TI Home 2010. Drive has three partitions with the first being the active bootable partition. When use mount image feature, 2nd and 3rd partitions mount correctly. Windows 7 reports that the first, containing the active partition, is unformatted. Drive C image therefore not available. Can get to it through other recovery means, but not through mounting it.
Any thoughts?
Gary

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Can't mount drive, only image. No option present for drive only.
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Gary:
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're trying to do. Could you add some further explanation? What do you mean by "drive"? A disk? A partition on the disk (D: drive, for example)?
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I have one physical hard drive which contains three partitions: C, D, E. The C partition contains the operating system. When trying to mount an image as a virtual drive, the program re-creates the tri-partition setup. D and E come up fine. C says that the drive is not formatted. Have tried it several times and had same result each time. Have stopped trying due to the phrase that stupidity is trying the same thing time after time after time and expecting different results.
Gary
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Gary:
Does the mount operation also fail if you try mounting only the C partition?
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Do you get similar messages to my post here forum.acronis.com/forum/4924
?
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Dug deeper into the program. Actually found a way not mentioned in "help" to mount just one partition. Tried to mount only C partition. Got exact same error.
Colin - entirely different message. Simply says disk not formatted and has to be before data can be written to it. Don't even know if you can format a virtual drive. May try it for kicks. However, won't help as when hit mount again Acronis will not use that drive letter and will get same error message about new one.
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So what did you do to get it to mount?
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So I think that we've established the the C partition on this image will not mount successfully. Do you have another image to try? In other words, is this a problem with this one particular image, or does it occur with every image of your C partition?
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Tried the only other image I have which was made under Vista. Exactly the same result. Partition C did not mount while the others did.
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I have had a sudden thought! Disable NSB Service and see if C: becomes available for mounting, or with NSB disabled, make your all partitions image, and then try mounting the 'C:' partition.
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Could you spell out NSB for me? The only service I find that may be applicable is network sharing. Is that it?
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Gary Berns wrote:Could you spell out NSB for me? The only service I find that may be applicable is network sharing. Is that it?
NSB = Non Stop Backup
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I upgraded today to the latest build and the problem went away. I have no more idea why it went away then I do of why it came in the first place.
Thanks for all your help.
Gary
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