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"Failed to Recover the Backup Archive"

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Hi everyone,

Here is my problem, I hope you could help: I backed up my drive "C" containing my Win7 installation and I had it validated after the back up process. Everything is fine until here. Today I tried to recover the back up archive. The operation starts just normal but after 5 seconds or so I get the "Failed to Recover the Backup Archive" error and the operation is automatically cancelled. When I try a different back up archive I get no error, so it seems there is something wrong with the back up file itself.

Here is what I have tried:
- I had the image archive validated again and it turns out to be normal.
- I tried to recover the archive with or without the MBR.
- I renamed the archive.
but nothing has changed.

Thanks.

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Ahmet,
Copy (do not move) your backup file to a new location and then validate it again. If it validates, try the restore once more from the new location.
Sometimes restoring from a backup file in a different location helps. If you are not restoring from your bootable media, try the recovery from your bootable media.

Thank you James, I didn't need to do what you suggested as I noticed that my backup file was abnormally oversized which might be the source of the problem.