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Recovery system says backup is corrupted

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I took an "Entire PC" backup of a Window 7 PC. When I then brought up the Linux recovery system from USB flash "drive" and validated the backup. It reported that the backup was corrupted but I could still try recovering files. It gave no indication of what was wrong. I then rebooted Windows and ran a validate under TI 2015. I got no error message so I assume it passed validation.

This backup is needed for a full system restore - recovered to the original disks. The backup is either usable by the Acronis Linus recovery system or it is useless. I assume it restore from a file it thinks is corrupted.

I'm currently doing a TI 2015 validation of another PC's "Entire PC" backup. I will then try validation of that backup under the Acronis Linux recovery system.

BTW, I created the the recovery system under using TI 2015 - there isn't (or shouldn't be a) an incompatibility issue.

Update:

I've tried a few more things.

1.  On the problematic PC, multiple backups on my external drive fail validation by the Linux recovery system.  None that I tried succeeded.  However, they all passed validation done under TI 2015.

2. On the problematic PC, a disk backup done to an internal hard drive passes validation under the Linux recovery system.

3. On a different PC, an "Entire PC" backup to an external drive passes validation done by the Linux recovery system.

Is there any way to fix this other than use a different external drive?  This is an old Seagate USB 2.0 desktop drive.  (1 TB, I think.)

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