Help....More restore problems

Discussion in 'Acronis True Image Product Line' started by rarkay, Feb 24, 2007.

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  1. rarkay

    rarkay Registered Member

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    Hi All,

    I've been making backups for several months now for the usual reasons. Today I needed those backups because my laptop crashed.
    First I tried to restore my C partition from one of the full backups and that went OK. Then I went to restore the same drive ( C: ) with a more current backup of just files, no partition data. I chose to restore to the original path but the program creates a C: directory and put everything in there. After several tries of restoring to the right path I got a disk full error and the files were not written over but "renamed" as in xxx.yyy~dfkdfhjh. All the files had a .~ name. I've been at this all day and getting pretty burned out. Can anyone explain to me what I'm doing wrong?

    rarkay
     
  2. Ralphie

    Ralphie Registered Member

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    What's the version and build number of True Image?
    Is this on an XP, 2k, or Vista system?
    Are the backups in a Secure Zone or on an external drive?
    Did you do the Restore using the Rescue CD or from within Windows?
    Is the laptop drive a new one? (Crash could mean many things).
     
  3. rarkay

    rarkay Registered Member

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    Hi Ralphie,

    The backups were created running XP Pro with TI 9.1 build 3534. I run the backups from a TI boot CD so no files are locked, and are saved to an external USB drive.

    The laptop is not new, about two years old. When I started to get constant volume is dirty on bootup I formatted the drive and did the restoring. That's when I noticed the great number of renamed files. ex .xxx~yyyzzz. last count was over 11K in number. When I try to delete them I get a message the file/directory is unreadable or corrupt. o_Oo_Oo_O
     
  4. Ralphie

    Ralphie Registered Member

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    Sounds like your drive needs some serious "houskeeping" programs to be run. Do you use any software to get rid of temporary files or any Registry cleaning software?
    I would start again and Restore a full backup, then cleanup your temporary files folder and your Registry.

    I have seen others report that when they went to restore just files to their original locations the files were restored in the manner you described. I don't know the cause or the solution other than to manually move the files to the original locations.
     
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