Skip to main content

My first corrupt archive

Thread needs solution

I took an image backup of a partition to a USB drive, then later moved (copied and deleted) the image file to an internal SATA drive. Now any attempt to validate or open it says corrupt.

I tried chkdsk with sector repair on the SATA drive; I copied the image to another internal drive; I even tried a couple of file-undelete programs on the USB drive.

Is there anything at all to do?

0 Users found this helpful
MKairys wrote:
I took an image backup of a partition to a USB drive, then later moved (copied and deleted) the image file to an internal SATA drive. Now any attempt to validate or open it says corrupt.

I tried chkdsk with sector repair on the SATA drive; I copied the image to another internal drive; I even tried a couple of file-undelete programs on the USB drive.

Is there anything at all to do?

Did it validate OK on the original USB drive?

Are you validating it with the same version of TI that you made it with?

Ok

It is not looking good. It may have got damaged on the transfer.

Can you see if it will validate on the internal drive using the Recovery CD

Also this page is a flow chart from Acronis posting about corrupt folders.

http://www.acronis.com/r/support/en/kb/254/troubleshoot.corrupt.htm

Not withstanding it validated on the external drive I would still check your memory with Memtest

See this posting http://forum.acronis.com/forum/4131

Only one bit has to go bad for the backup to no longer be able to usable by ATI. It's a good idea to not disturb or move any external drives while file operations are going on as even a bit of static from jiggling a connection can cause a bad bit. If the problem recurs frequently but only with the external drive, then I'd suspect the connections -- try a new cable or diff drive.

If it happens even with an internal drive used as the target for a backup, then I'd suspect ATI is having a problem with your hardware. Try another brand of backup or deal with ATcronis Tech.

A last possbility is that there is an intermittent fault in some of the extreme reaches of your memory -- an area rarely used except by ATI -- this can cause file read/write errors that result in backups having one or more bad bits. Get latest free copy of memtest and let it run over night (not jsut for an hour or two) to see if you memory checks out okay. If bad memory, replace the stick that has the bad spot.

http://www.memtest.org/