TI 2010 Corrupted my image??
Gurus,
I'm a network admin who occasionally does some computer work for folks on the side. If I have to do anything even slightly invasive, I remove their hard drive(s), plug them into my laptop with a USB converter, and using TI on my laptop, I make an image of the drive onto an external USB hard drive. I have been doing this for about 5 years, and have done it many times.
I imaged a disk that had 2 partitions, C: and E:. The user wanted all their data back, so I plugged in the source hard drive with the image on it, and an empty destination drive. In my laptop (Win7), using Windows explorer I navigated to the source drive, clicked on the image, it opened a second window showing icons for C: and E:. I first opened C:, selected all the folders, selected "Copy", and then pasted them into a folder on the destination drive. The copy went OK, but I noticed that when it was done, the icon on the source drive (the TI image) for C: had changed to a generic Windows "I don't know what this is" icon, although I can still click on it and browse what's in there. I thought that was wierd, and disconnected both drives and rebooted my laptop, but nothing changed. Navigating to the Image showed a generic icon for C: and a TI icon for E:.
A lot of the folders in E: were quite large, so I selected a few of them at a time instead of all at once. When I got to "Documents and Settings", I did that one by itself also, but it took nearly 12 hours to finish!! I thought about cancelling, but I could see files being copied and progress being made, so I left it.
Now I've gotten out of bed to find the job done, and in the destination folder, only 1 single Word document!! When I browsed to the image file itself, into E:, then Documents and Settings, and the same thing, it now contains only 1 Word doc!! There was hundreds of megabytes of data there last night!!!! Also, the icon for E: is now generic as well.
Has anyone seen this before??? Is my user's data completely toasted???
This is so frustrating! Any help would be appreciated...
-Michael

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I will definitely do something different in the future, but for now... what happened to my source image?? Does TI re-write the image sometimes based on what you're doing?
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The original backup image should have been untouched--no changes--not rewritten.
What you received in your copy should have been whatever you asked to be copied.
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http://forum.acronis.com/forum/14475#comment-44231
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