TIH 2010 - made backups yesterday, verfied as good - today unreadable.
Are there any known issues with using Acronis and the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex USB drives?
Used Acronis True Image Home 2010 to back up a partition on my Windows 7 Ultimate laptop to external HD. Options set to split backup into DVD sized files, verify backup, etc.
No errors reported on completion.
Next day tried to restore partition and got the error:
"Acronis True Image home backup archive file is corrupted.
If the backup is an image, you may try to recover data from it by mounting and recovering intact data."
Can't mount the backup, view contents, etc.
Tried copying backup to local HD but made no difference.
The external HD is a 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex USB drive. Using it as an external drive, not using any of the Seagate software that came with it.
Thanks
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I ran Seagate's diagnostic program Sea Tools and it found no problems with the drive.
I ran all the tests except the last one which would destroy the data. The 'Long Generic' test was capable of fixing disk errors - but the testing didn't find any.
Here's the same drive as sold on NewEgg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148847&nm_mc=K…
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Based on the reviews of this drive in the link you posted, others have had problems with this drive as well. (including corrupt files). Since it has a two year warranty, you could possibly have Seagate replace the drive?
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I downgraded my Acronis True Image Home Backup from 6942 to 6868 and now I can read the all the backups!
I had upgraded before doing one of the last back sets (and it had verified the backup as OK).
Maybe 6942 installed corrupted, some bit got tweaked after installation, etc...
I'll try reinstalling 6942 AFTER I restore my partition and see if I get the previous read failures again.
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AFAIK the latest build of ATIH2010 is 7160--why don't you use that one instead.
I've used 2010 for a long time, build 7160 and snapapi586.
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a 3TB disk is most likely a GPT disk or there is some unallocated space. Support of GPT data disks started with 2011 with the Plus Pack, and continued with 2012 and 2013 without the Plus Pack.
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