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Trying to restore a .VHD to the original hard drive, keep getting "Operation failed" almost immediately

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I am running Windows 8 x64 Pro, with Acronis True Image 2013 (whatever the latest build is, I checked for updates and it said I was current).

I make .VHD's with the technet disk2vhd software, and have used Acronis True Image in the past to restore them to the original hard drives, or even replacement hard drives (to be fair I believe that was the 2012 edition though).

Recently I backed up a hard drive I was going to reformat into a .VHD file, and ended up wanting to restore it. I have the .VHD, I have the original hard drive. I am fairly certain the .VHD is valid and not corrupted as I can mount it fine and see all the original files. When I choose "Recover" in True Image and go through the setup process, it says "operation started", brings up a window with a bar, waits half a second and then says "Operation failed". This is if I do partition mode and disk mode.

If it matters there are two partitions, one is ~50GB NTFS, the other is ~5GB FAT32 recovery partition.

I have generated a system report after several failed attempts and attached it, if that helps at all. Another interesting point is that I made a different backup using True Image into it's proprietary format (the .TIBs) and tried restoring from that and it worked. Unfortunately it is not the restore point I want so it's worthless, but worth mentioning I suppose.

Also, this might not be the best place to ask but does anyone know of good alternatives to True Image for re-copying .VHD's back onto hard drives (both originals and replacements). That is honestly the only thing I use True Image for and it's track record is about 50/50 at this point. I had begun researching using the dd command to do it, but stopped because I don't have a *nix environment at work anyways, and I believe I had to convert the .VHD into a .IMG before proceeding. Anyways if anyone knows a good way of doing this in Windows I would be much obliged!

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Jeff,

Try making a complete image of the drive and then use 2013 to convert the tib file to a VHD (look under the utilities tab). You will end up with both a tib and a VHD file.