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Recover Operation Failed - Internal error: number of backed up sectors differs from counted

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Hi All,

I ran into this problem and wanted to post the fix for other people.

During a recover operation using TIH 2012 the operation failed with the following error message:

Internal error: number of backed up sectors differs from counted

there were also other errors but the crux of the matter was that the Recover operation was in fact succeeding with all data being copied successfully but the final stage of writing the MBR and partition table was failing for some reason.

To solve, I downloaded

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

and ran through the process of uncovering the hidden partitions Acronis had deleted and writing the new partition table.

I then ran Windows 7 startup recovery which fixed the MBR and voila I had the recovered windows back up and running.

I presume this will work for any case where Acronis appears to fail after recovery and results in an "unallocated partition"

Thanks

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Just curious about the circumstances and thank you for the information.

Were you performing the restore from within Windows or from the TI Bootable media?

Were you restoring a single partition or performing a restore of the entire disk with multiple partitions?? If restoring the entire disk, did you delete the partitions first on the target disk?