How to copy/move backups from Secure Zone to another drive or volume?

Hi,

this relates to Acronis True Image Home 10.0.

Obviously my notebook's hard drive is dying. So first thing I tried was to create a backup of its system partition using Acronis Startup Manager, but there are lots of bad sectors, so *if* the backup ever should be finished it won't be of much use,I'm afraid.

So this obviously means a new hard drive. Now, on my *dying* drive I installed a Secure Zone partition that contains a rather recent backup of my system partition. I ran a system check on that backup and it seems to be OK. My question now is:

how can I get the backup out of the Secure Zone if I can't really restore its contents to my hard drive?

 

If you run chkdsk /r on the drive several times, until it returns no errors, you might be able to create a new backup. Save it to an external USB drive (or somewhere else besides the SZ). I had to run chkdsk six times on one drive before it stopped showing new errors. After that I got a valid backup, restored to a new drive and it worked fine. (The errors were not in critical system files.)

It is possible to copy .TIBs from the SZ.

One approach is to use a Knoppix boot cd and mount the Acronis SZ partition (it's FAT32). See this post.

Another is to change the partition type as in this thread: Can I copy the secure zone image as a .tib file?

Once you have access, copy the files to another location (USB drive, network share, another internal drive, etc.)

 

Cool, that's what I was looking for (but most probably was using the wrong search words).

Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight.

-Lothar