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Error Message: Delayed write failed

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I had to abort my bu as Acronis stalled out on me after running 6 hours. Now I'm getting an error message "Delayed write failuer. Windows was unable to save all the data for the file M:/$MFT. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere." I'm about to freak out, as I can not go and Restore, there is no restore point on my computer. I use Xp. That M drive had all of my graphics that I have saved for years for my graphics programs. That was the reason for backing it up. I have this horrible feeling all of that is completely gone....

Any ideas, anyone?

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Barbara,

Is the image being stored an a separate drive?

Is the 'M' partition the source drive of your graphics or the destination drive/partition for the image?

Does your PC still boot and if it does can you see your source drive still in Windows Explorer or whatever file manager you use?

The MFT stores the directory of where all your files live and their size, so it is possible that the actual files are OK, just the directory is corrupt. That might be solved by running Microsoft Checkdisk ( chkdsk /r ) on the 'M' partition.

Have you made any previous images? I'm assuming that you were making a complete disk or partition image not a files and folders backup.