Data Recovery from Corrupted Acronis Image File???

[gutharius]

Is there a way to take partially completed Acronis backup and write it to a hard drive so you can then use a file recovery tool to scan the data for files?

[Ralphie]

From what I've been reading, only True Image can look into the backup files it creates.

[gutharius]

So there is no way to force it to write/mount the archive so you can explore the contents?

[Unit01]

Not on an image archive thats been classified as corrupt.

There have been a fair number of requests for the ability to recover at least the files that aren't affected by the corruption, however we're yet to see it.

[gutharius]

I wonder if there would be a way to modify the file to make acronis think it was a complete archive so you could get it to spit out the contents until it got a read error from the file actually being incomplete. Hopefully there is no internal checksum done... I would think there is but hope beyond all hope right?

[Xpilot]

Is the source drive from which the partial image was made still available ? If so I would suggest that would be a good place to start.
If it is not bootable it could none the less be put in a USB drive enclosure or as a secondary hard drive and could be explored and copied from there.
Another approach would be to boot the affected computer from the rescue CD and make a fresh image to other media which could then be mounted and explored.

Xpilot

[Acronis Support]

Hello gutharius,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/products/).

We are sorry for the delayed response.

Incomplete backup archives cannot be open in any way. To avoid such situations in future we could recommend you storing several full backups at a time, or at least deleting previous full backup after creation of the new one. You can learn more from the respective chapters of the User's Guide (http://www.acronis.com/download/docs/).

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov