Misleading Corruption Error Message

[JohnM]

If during a drive image restore, you get a message that your backup file is corrupt, it may actually be fine. I just discovered that you should always FDISK the destination drive before attempting a restore. TrueImage can do strange things if you don't. One of them is to tell you that your backup file is corrupt when it isn't. Another thing it will do is fail to recognize the drive at all. Who knows what other strange things it might do as well. Also, once you get the corrupt file message, you must FDISK before trying again.

So, if you're restoring a drive because something went wrong (and why else would you be doing it?!) then you should perform an FDISK on it first to be on the safe side.

Note: Formatting after the FDISK is unnecessary, so at least you can save yourself that step.

[jayea2003]

I am an XP Home user. What is FDISK, and how do I run it? It does not show up in the help documentation.

[shieber]

I've never run Fdisk before doing a full disk image restore and nver had any problems with that operation in TI8 or TI9.

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[seekforever]

-{ Quote: "I am an XP Home user. What is FDISK, and how do I run it? It does not show up in the help documentation." }-

Fdisk is a DOS program used to partition new disks or repartition disks. It does not support NTFS. If you have a new disk on your system when you boot up the XP install it gives you the option to partition your disk before you do anything IIRC.

[jayea2003]

Thanks Seekforever.