Recovering is failing when image is stored on external sata drive
I am using a dell PC with windows 7 ultimate 64bit and the latest build of ATIH 2012. External drive is a freecom e-Sata.
Yesterday I tried to test the recover of the image created by Acronis.
I started ATI with the startup recovery manager (booting with F11) and chose the backup-file. But the program is telling the image-file could not be found, allthough I am able to choose it.
Then I booted windows normal, started ATIH and tried to do the resotore again. I chose what to recover and ATIH said it has to restart now. But again - the restore is failing.
Controlling the log-files everyhink seems to be normal.
It is the first time I have these problems. ATIH 2009 - 2011 were working fine.
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Do the restore from the recovery CD, not from the F11 ASRM and not from Windows. Remember that the CD might show you drive letters different from what Windows shows you. Double check drive labels when navigating to find your backup file, and when you choose the destination for restoring.
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This link may be helpful.
If you are only wanting to check or copy of few files, look at item #5 at this link.
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I did the following:
Create a new image job. Made an image and the validation. No problems. Trying to do a restore:
a. From windows
- Choose to restore. System starts new and simply no restore.
b. From Acronis Secure Zone
- Choose to restore. System starts new and telling "Acronis True Image Home cannot detect Volume 1 from "Meine_Volumes".
(e-Sata is drive G:)
c. Boot from CD
- Chose to restore. Failing again.
After the alert Acronis not detecting the image I choose to search for images. Now the image is found (e-Sata is now drive F:).
I tried to restore from Acronis Secure Zone too, no problems. It seems there are problems with the e-Sata. So I allways have to do one additional step and
search for the Image.
I am not able to post screenshots because windws is not running by trying to restore.
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Uwe,
If Windows keeps changing your drive letter on the external, you can help to prevent that by assigning a specific drive letter (such as x or y or z) to the external disk. Then, most every time you attach the external, it would always be assigned as that drive letter.
If you assign a specific letter, you will need to create a new backup task pointing to the new location and also assign a new empty folder to the task.
However, when booting from the CD, it is Normal to have to use the browse for backup option as the CD is using LINUX software to locate the drive.
Note however, assigning a specific drive letter will not help to prevent the need for browsing when booted from the CD.
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