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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:38 am 
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Win7 64bit machine was running a bit funny. Hard to explain.
More of a feeling. I went on and tested the HD 4 different ways.
CrystalDiskInfo, Speedfan,Seatools for Windows and CheckDisk
All showed problems. Bad sectors etc.

I went and bought a new Seagate HD the same size. 1T
Couldn't afford a SSD.
Made two fresh Backups and Images using Win7 native. Found my
Recovery Disk and it was broken. Used my last disk to make a new one.

At the last minute I remembered Macrium and made Recovery USB
Drive. Made a Backup and Image.Glad I did.

Monday morning I installed the new drive. Put in the Recovery disk and it started. It was rolling along until up pops an error. Stopped everything in it's tracks. Tried again using the other backup drive
Same error. Disk defective.

OK Macrium's turn. Put in Recovery drive and that worked. After a
few clicks and minutes The System Image was in place.
Ran tests on the new drive and everything was great.
Machine running fine.
Whew!!

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I don't know if this is the case, Chas, but it may be possible that Macrium (or any third party imaging program) makes some changes to a drive that Windows System Image can't stomach. ;) I had found this to be the case years ago. So once you use one of these 3rd party programs, you really can't use System Image.

Can anyone refute or confirm that for me?

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You maybe right. I think it was the disk. It was old and had been bounced around. I couldn't
even get to the recovery menu. If I remember correctly I did a Image restore a few years back using native and had Macrium on my computer and it worked .Didn't have to use a recovery disk though. I'll make a new one and test it.

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No issue here between Windows imaging and Acronis.

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:02 pm 
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I took the disk and erased it. I then made a new Recovery disk with it.
Booted from it and after the files loaded the the thing just sat there
for 5 minutes. Error pops up 0x4001100200001012.
Just like yesterday.

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Thanks, Jay. Glad to hear it!

Chas, looks like you've got a dead disk.

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Can you use SeaTools to do a low level format of the drive? It might take care of the bad sectors.


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Something to try. Thanks

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