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Cannot recover a disk from a backup stored on the same disk

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Hello, I am getting the following messege when I try to restore from a backup: "cannot recover a disk from a backup stored on the same disk"

What does this mean, is there ANY way to restore my computer BEFORE the time it had viruses on it... I though that is what True Image was for. I am testing it out and I have already had a number of issues... If I am not able to RESTORE from my backup, I am going back to Norton Ghost, which lets me restore from my backup.

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Kirill,

I imagine when you made this image TI complained about storing an image of the disk on the same disk, unfortunately it does allow you to do this.

You only solution at the moment is to copy the image file onto another drive or if you have one a different partition, then boot from the recovery media and then restore the disk image.

The reason it is not allowing you to restore from the same disk is because the first thing it has to do is to erase the disk.

Did you make a complete disk image or did you make a per partition image?

All restores of a system disk should be performed from the recovery media so that Windows cannot interfere. Non OS drives can be restored with no problem from within Windows.

Before copying the image to another partition or drive, i suggest running a validation task and again once you have moved the image elsewhere. Only once validation has passed on new location should you attempt the restore.