You may need to do a sector-by-sector restore of a disk backup if it has a file system that was corrupted before the backup was made

This article applies to:

• Acronis True Image Home 2012
• Acronis True Image Home 2011

Introduction

If you have a backup of a disk with corrupted file system (i.e. the file system was corrupted before the backup was made), you may need to do a sector-by-sector restore to unallocated space and run a checkdisk.

Solution

To do the sector-by-sector restore you will need:

• Acronis Bootable Media. Please see Acronis True Image Home 2012: Creating Acronis Bootable Media;
• A disk with enough unallocated space to hold all of the data from the disk backup.

Doing a sector-by-sector restore:

1. Boot from Acronis Bootable Media;
2. Select the disk backup that you need to restore;
3. On the Recovery method step, select Recovery whole disks and partitions:

   

4. On the What to recover step select the whole disk:

   

5. On the New partition location step select Unallocated space:

   

   

   (!) Do not change the size of the restored backup at this point.

   (!) Make sure the size of the unallocated space is at least a little bigger than the size of the disk in the backup.

6. The MBR will be recovered to the disk with unallocated space as well:

   

7. Review the summary and hit Proceed:

   

8. After the operation completes, run checkdisk with the repair option to fix the file system corruption:
   • Go to the Command Prompt (Start-Run -> cmd):

     

   • Enter the command:

     chkdsk DISK: /r

     where DISK is the drive letter of the partition you need to check. Please note that checking the C: drive may require you to reboot the machine.

     For example

     

More information

Please contact Acronis Support if you need assistance.