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What state should a destination disk be in for recovery?

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Hi,
Using Acronis 2014 and Windows 7 professional.

I am trying to recover a full back up to an external (internal drive in case) drive.

The backup is on my internal D: Drive.

I get 'cannot recover this partition' and the intended destination drive words are in red.

The backup is from a WD 1tb drive whereas the destination drive is a WD 2tb version.

I have tried another external drive, again a 2tb version, and it seems it will recover to this with no problem

I am assuming that the new drive needs to be set up in a certain way. I have tried RAW, Unformatted, Formatted and set it up as a simple drive to no avail. It still shows the drive in RED.

I cannot find any error codes or an explanation as to why the drive would no be considered a good candidate for a destination drive.
Any assistance would be gratefully received. Al

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Just a thought here, are you using the Premium version of TI 2014? If you are using the standard TI 2014 version and the disk you are having issue is a dynamic volume this could be your issue. Dynamic disks are not supported in the standard product whereas dynamic disks are supported in the premium version.

You can check if the disk is dynamic or basic using Windows Disk Manager. You can access Windows Disk Manager through Windows Control Panel, System and Security, Administrative Tools, Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions.

HI, Thanks for this. I think the disk is 'simple basic'. I can't see anywhere it mentions 'Dynamic'

To see this information I have to right click on 'my computer' then left click on 'storage'.

I don't have the options you describe in control panel.. I have separate 'system' and 'security' options but neither gives the information you mention..

I'm on windows 7 professional

Thank Al

sorry missed a step out... right click 'my computer' left click 'manage' then left click 'disk storage'

my short term memory is not what it was

In that case I would suggest that you run chkdsk /r from an admin command prompt on the problem drive to check for a fix possible corruption.

Luckily the old drive had not died so I was able to take another backup to an external drive (rather than the internal 'D' drive). This worked ok. I simply created an Acronis boot disk and then recovered to the new drive. I've no idea why it would not recover from the internal drive. Thanks for your help on this. Al