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Restore Fails due to "Currupt File"

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I have been diligently backing up my important documents for few years with Acronis True Image Home 11 onto a NAS device. When my hard drive failed, I thought that my data was safe. However, when I tried restoring, every archive with my data in it returned “file is corrupt” error and the restore failed. Even going back a year of bi-weekly backups, every single one failed. Strangely enough, another set of folders, that are less important for me (of course) backed up separately in the same NAS location restored just fine.

I have seen many posts with the same problem, with various workarounds, from booting from True Image to browsing the archive and copying files individually. The first workaround failed identically as running it from Windows XP. The second allowed me to see the files, but copy and paste reported no less cryptic error of “Insufficient Space”.

I’m a software engineer and the seemingly universal fault that the Acronis’s support assigns to RAM or hard drive are not very likely culprits here. RAM errors would lead to repeated crushes of software and operating system, the hard drive errors are possible, but seems to be effecting True Image files only.

The NAS device that has the archives has never failed to hold video, music, photo or other manually done back ups. The very important capability of a backup system is the ability to restore, that it precisely what is missing in the True Image product. I have lost 2 years worth of data, should never have entrusted True Image with it!

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When you say v11 is that v11 or v2011?

Can you copy the complete archive and then attempt to validate the contents.

Insufficient space might also refer to the SSID of your new Windows install being different to that of the archive, in which case you'll need to attach the archives and their contents to you new user SSID.