Unable to restore backup due to drive ID
I have made all my backups routinely like a good little computer owner. The backups started to take up way too much space, so I copied them out to another drive. Now when I have gone to restore the backups I have found that WHAM! Acronis for no apparent reason requires you to use the same drive you first copied it onto, not just whatever drive has the backup on it. I have tried for almost the entire day to copy the tib file back to the original disk, but it will not go, it works for about half an hour then tells me "Cannot read from media". I've tried 3 computers and a direct connection to a network drive, the file will not budge. So now I have backup software and a completely fine and intact, otherwise usable backup, but it won't restore because it's in a new place. I understand why you might wish to warn someone about the fact it's not the "correct" drive, but why in the world would you insist like this? The option comes up to "ignore" the warning, but pressing "ignore" just cancels the task, it doesn't let me ignore the problem and proceed anyway. If you make a second backup of a backup in case of drive failure, only one of them will ever be any use, so still you have only one backup. This is the craziest thing I ever heard!
How do I now use my perfectly good backup to restore the files from the perfectly good drive with my perfectly good sofware? (The drive is now full, so I can't create another backup with the same name then delete the wrong one and use the old file, it won't fit).


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