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Restoring from a clone

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I am using Acronis True Image 2013. Last summer, I cloned my hard drive. Unfortunately, since then I had never updated it. Just recently, my computer started failing and I needed to use the clone. The clone was not up to date, I manually copied and pasted the missing files into the clone. When I tried restoring from this clone, it failed, stating a MFT bitmap corruption. Was this caused by me adding files to the hard drive? And if so, if I delete these files, could it possibly fix this error? Any suggestions?

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Hi Tracy,
Lets get some clarification so we understand how to help you better.

What build of 2013 are you running?
What OS is this?

Did you clone your hard drive or make a full disk image back up?

When you say you added files to a "clone" does this mean you copied files to a drive you cloned the original disk to?

After cloning (last year), did you ever remove the old disk and boot to the new "cloned" drive to ensure it worked?

If you put this drive into the PC it was cloned from and booted into windows, modifications could happen that might keep this disk from starting on its own. It doesn't matter that its old or that you never updated it.

A properly cloned disk should be able to start in the same PC if done correctly, but, this needs to be tested with the source disk removed or disconnected. << That part is important.

The error message is probably something different. This error usually means there are missing security descriptors and the free space of the drive is being reported incorrectly. Sometimes performing a chkdsk /f can fix this problem, but much of the time, missing information cannot be repaired.

It would be helpful for us to know if the "cloned' drive ever booted successfully on its own. Or if what you really did was restore a disk image to a new drive. Then copied files to it.

Thanks