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TI 2010 "recovering Partition sector by sector" meaning

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My WD hard drive died. WD diagnostics reports "too many errors" so I replaced it.

Now running a restore from my TI 2010 bootable media I notice the subject message on the status dialog. As far as I know, my backup was not a sector by sector backup. I've never intentionally made use of such a feature. If the restore works I should be able to check my job and be certain that sector by sector was not chosen. Besides, the TIB file contains a full backup of 3 physical disks and is no where near their total size.

Could this message during restore indicate some problem occurred with the restore and sector by sector is being used in an attempt to bypass the problem?

I am restoring the entire boot drive, boot sector, and drive signature.

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As far as I know, that's normal. If possible, TI will revert to restoring in sector-by-sector mode even if not created that way. It just means that the sectors that are restored are being restored back to the same sectors. Unsaved sectors, of course, won't be restored, but aren't required (unused space wasn't included in the backup).

Hello,

rkh, MudCrab's explanation is absolutely correct. True Image will just recover your data sector-by-sector, so unused sectors won't be restored.

Please reply to this thread if you have any further questions.

MudCrab, thank you for your help.

Hello Ilya,
why this doesn't happen with version 2011, 2012 and 2013? Since TI 2011 I have the problem that after a system has been restored, the incremental backups are too large and the reason why is because new versions of TI don't recover images sector by sector ( take a look at the window in the blue screen while restoring and compare it with TI 2010) . This doesn't happen with TI 2010. Can anyone help me?

Taddeus,
As you restored your system, you would have much better results if you stopped using the old backup task and created a new backup task and the new backup task would have all the correct entries so the size of the the backup files would be as expected for the type backup being created.

Hello Grover,
You're right, but if I create each time a new task, I'll have always less space on my hard drive unless I delete the old task. But I don't want to delete it.