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TI Creates Image Fails Validation??

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TI 2015. I have been imaging partitions and cloning hard drives for the better part of a decade with various TI versions. Only once some years back did I have to restore a partition and it worked flawlessly. Only occasionally do I remember in the settings before imaging the partition to select validate the image. I don't recall if I did that the one time I had to restore. I have a backup hard drive for the notebook that I clone once a month and afterwards swap the drives to make sure the just cloned drive works. Never a problem. This past weekend as I have done in the past I went to image the partition (one of two) and choose to validate however during the validation process it said unsuccessful. I tried different versions of TI as well as different backup media (external USB, docking station with the hard drive both which I have used before) but during the validation process it always failed. If I do not select validate the image is created successfully. What do you all think of this? You think the image is still good and just something goofy is going on with the validation process? I'm not brave enough to erase my current partition and see if the image works nor am I willing to experiment on my back up hard drive. TIA.

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Image can be good and it could be error ridden.
Sometimes even good images couldn't be validated in my system.
I read in forum that system memory errors / problem can hinders successful validation.
See all RAM sticks are alright.

Before I used to validate the images and it always validates successfully.
But after some time it doesn't. So I stopped validating.
and now I only creates backup images of full HDD and I can recovers full HDD images easily.