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Restoring from a Backup Acronis file, but contains registry errors

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I have a HD with errors in registry and also errors in files in different folders.

The plan ? is to wipe the HD, and restore using an Original CD startup.

I would then restore only certain folders (doc and xls files etc.) and other program and data files.

Is this a valid reponse or is there a better way?

Thanks in advance

Confused

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I'm confused too, as you haven't provided much information.

Do you have a full disk backup made before the errors occurred? If so, restore that, but first save your user data files so you can separately restore/copy those that have changed since that backup.

Thanks for your reply. I have full disk backups, but they were made after the errors occurred.
I cannot find a button in Acronis (2013) to backup only certain folders.
Depending on reponses, I will wait to restore the HD and files.
I thank you for your response and the fact you are volunteering.
Very much appreciated.

I have images of my drives that also contain errors, including the MBT.  If there were some way to clone that image to disk and make the chkdsk /f/v I understand that most of those issues would go away.  I have not found a way to do that up until now.

Any advice on that is most welcome - I post this here, since it is an older post, but perhaps some of those addressing the problems noted above have found some answers to that issue.  Unfortunately I have to do a whole reinstall of Windows due to this issue, and it will take years to recover to where I was before this nightmare began, and the discovery that the images contained the errors and [apparently] cannot be recovered.

 

Dick

Richard, the only advice that I can offer to you would be to restore your backup image to a spare HDD using sector-by-sector method if needed and then run your CHKDSK against the restored drive while this is attached to a working system.

Note: If using sector-by-sector method, then please ensure that the target drive you are restoring to is of the same or larger size than the original drive that the image was created from.

One caveat to the above advice is that the backup images must be able to be validated and recognised by Acronis as being a valid backup.

Please see KB document: 1689: Backup Archive Compatibility Across Different Product Versions which may come into play with this question depending on what version of Acronis created the backup image and what version is being used to restore it.