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Message: This is not the last volume of the Backup Archive

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I am running Windows 7 Pro on a laptop and the drive is starting to fail. So I purchased and installed Acronis True Image Home 2012 Update 2 (build 7119). Bought a new hard drive.

Using Acronis I created the Boot CD.

Using Acronis, I created a full backup of all the partitions of the old drive. I used the Backup splitting option of 4.7GB(DVD). It made 6 .tib files, named My partitions_test thru My partitions_test6 in the directory C:\MyBackups on the old drive. Ran the Validate option which returned the message "The backup is valid." Then copied each .tib file to a separate DVD.

Shutdown the laptop, replaced the old drive with the new drive. Inserted the Boot CD and started the laptop and Acronis. Selected Recovery, put the first .tib file DVD into the CD-Rom. Selected the Browse for Backups button, selected CD Drive(F:), selected F:\MyPartitions_test.tib file, Click the OK button and then got the following message: "This is not the last volume of the Backup Archive".

What am I missing in this process?

I looked at similar topics in the Knowledge base but they did not cover performing a Recovery from multiple DVD's.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Research,

In your case you should try copying the drives back to your original hard drive as you haven't quite used the splitting option as intended :) .

Your problem is that normally you would be splitting the image directly to DVD and TIH automatically links those DVD's as part of the image entry, as you've done this to disk which didn't itself require split images that information isn't there. I would say that imaging to DVD's is not a good idea for a primary image as depending on the size of your image, you might need physio after all the DVD swapping that will be required.

It might also be that in the copying process from drive to DVD corruption of the image has occured. It only takes one bit to be incorrect and the validation and image recovery will fail.

Using a DVD the sequence goes a little like this -

insert first DVD
insert last DVD
insert DVD number X
{insert first or last DVD - occasionally}
insert DVD number (x +1)

If you haven't wiped your old drive, you could do one of three things.

1. Do as suggested above and recover from the old drive.

2. Clone the old drive to the new drive - using the recovery CD, you will be able to expand the used space to fit your new drive.

3. More steps, image the complete disk of your old drive to the new drive - copy the resulting image back to your old drive - validate it - install new drive. From here you can either use the Windows based TIH or the recovery CD - recover the image to the new drive, switch the PC off, remove old drive, attach new drive in its' place and boot.