no restore - error E000700200

Hi

I have XP Home and TI 11 and have managed to (attempt to) restore to an invalid backup and so lose my whole system.

As I have 7 backup files over 3 separate drives made over the last 6 week I thought this would be no issue - but none of them will validate and I get the same error when i try and restore.

Now faced with starting over with a fresh install of XP and so losing 3 years of emails - does anyone have any ideas ?

I have the backups on both external SATa and USB and have tried copying them to an internal drive and restoring from there - but to no avail ?

Any thoughts much appreciated

Ian

 

Ian,

How did you try to restore the image:
a) under Windows?
b) with the rescue-CD?

And:
Are you sure that the error message is "E000700200" and not "E00070002"?

What says the eventlog from Ti11 to this error?

 

Assuming you are not using a laptop, try temporarily fitting your external drives inside you machine, and try again.

Also download and run memtest86+, over a reasonable period, say overnight to check your RAM. A single bit error can give the symptoms you are seeing.
http://www.memtest.org/

F.

 

hi

tks for the replies

Error message is E00070020

I have not tried the e-sata drive inside the machine - desperate enough to give it a go , but logically I cant see the difference - if the file is copied to an internal drive and still fails to validate, why would the 'original' make any difference ?

will try the memtest in the morning

tks

Ian

 

ok, then it is annother message I got

There CAN be a difference in the controller interface.

 

Because it could be the external disk interface which is causing problems when passing large files. You would have had to use this interface to copy the file as well as when used by TI.

F.