This is a related issue to a similar post of mine recently in this Forum.
I have been using D.I. 2002 for almost 2 years now to create Image Files of my Partitions without any problems.
Drive 1 is 80G and is partitioned into C,E,F & G drives. Drive 2 is 120G and is the D drive.
I have XP Pro SP2 installed on the C: drive.
Some days ago I decided to Defrag the 2 hard drives installed on the PC and this appeared to procede normally . I then tried to create an Image File of the first drive and copy it to a Folder on Drive 2 as I had done many times before without problems.
This operation failed to complete after some 65% into the operation with Error message " Unable to find Image File " There was an Error number associated with this which I think was 1831 but can't now be certain whether I've remembered the exact error number correctly.
When I examined Drive 2 - (the target drive for this attempted Image File) - I found it had become un-formatted !
After re-formatting this drive and reading some NG stuff on these errors , I again tried but this time without the " verify contents " ticked.
This time the File creation completed apparently normally but when attempting to verify the created file using Drive Image Image Explorer -( as suggested in the NG's )- I got the Error message #1810 " Image File could not be accessed "
I then copied an Image File to Drive 2 which had been created before these failures and which I had burned to a DVD Disk .
This file produced a normal response when verified in Image Explorer.
Finally , thinking that something had become corrupted in the Drive Image 2002 installation , I uninstalled the Application , re-installed it and tried to create another Image File of the C: drive .
This completed apparently normally again but again produced Error #1810 " Image File could not be accessed ".
I have not attempted to Restore these Files in case I get into trouble with the Restoration.
The only comment I make here is that , since these problems seem to have happened just after a defrag of both hard drives , could this have triggered such problems ?
I have to admit I don't defrag my hard drives as often as , perhaps , I should - I have had no bad effects from previous defrags . I do remember on this occasion being surprised to see large areas of fragmented files being shown on the 120G drive . This surprised me somewhat as this drive is around 80% empty and is rarely used by myself - I had expected to be told that this drive would not need a de-frag .
Whether that is significant or not here I am not able to say
Any comments and/or help will be much appreciated.
P.S.
Until I resolve this problem I have d/l and used a similar App called "Drive Image XML" with which I have created Image Files of some of the Drive 1 Partitions.
I have been using D.I. 2002 for almost 2 years now to create Image Files of my Partitions without any problems.
Drive 1 is 80G and is partitioned into C,E,F & G drives. Drive 2 is 120G and is the D drive.
I have XP Pro SP2 installed on the C: drive.
Some days ago I decided to Defrag the 2 hard drives installed on the PC and this appeared to procede normally . I then tried to create an Image File of the first drive and copy it to a Folder on Drive 2 as I had done many times before without problems.
This operation failed to complete after some 65% into the operation with Error message " Unable to find Image File " There was an Error number associated with this which I think was 1831 but can't now be certain whether I've remembered the exact error number correctly.
When I examined Drive 2 - (the target drive for this attempted Image File) - I found it had become un-formatted !
After re-formatting this drive and reading some NG stuff on these errors , I again tried but this time without the " verify contents " ticked.
This time the File creation completed apparently normally but when attempting to verify the created file using Drive Image Image Explorer -( as suggested in the NG's )- I got the Error message #1810 " Image File could not be accessed "
I then copied an Image File to Drive 2 which had been created before these failures and which I had burned to a DVD Disk .
This file produced a normal response when verified in Image Explorer.
Finally , thinking that something had become corrupted in the Drive Image 2002 installation , I uninstalled the Application , re-installed it and tried to create another Image File of the C: drive .
This completed apparently normally again but again produced Error #1810 " Image File could not be accessed ".
I have not attempted to Restore these Files in case I get into trouble with the Restoration.
The only comment I make here is that , since these problems seem to have happened just after a defrag of both hard drives , could this have triggered such problems ?
I have to admit I don't defrag my hard drives as often as , perhaps , I should - I have had no bad effects from previous defrags . I do remember on this occasion being surprised to see large areas of fragmented files being shown on the 120G drive . This surprised me somewhat as this drive is around 80% empty and is rarely used by myself - I had expected to be told that this drive would not need a de-frag .
Whether that is significant or not here I am not able to say
Any comments and/or help will be much appreciated.
P.S.
Until I resolve this problem I have d/l and used a similar App called "Drive Image XML" with which I have created Image Files of some of the Drive 1 Partitions.
