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:
- Boot from Acronis Bootable Media;
- Select the disk backup that you need to restore;
- On the Recovery method step, select Recovery whole disks and partitions:
- On the What to recover step select the whole disk:
- 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.
- The MBR will be recovered to the disk with unallocated space as well:
- Review the summary and hit Proceed:
- 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
- Go to the Command Prompt (Start-Run -> cmd):
More information
Please contact Acronis Support if you need assistance.