Macrium Reflect backup aborted.

imaddicted2u said:

@steve108
It's the same CDI instance with screenshots taken with each drive (E: and D:) selected.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Do you have a previous recent disk image of the failing drives?

If so, concentrate on recovering critical and recently changed data to a good drive.

Basic principle- don't write to or use a failing drive before you've recovered as much as you can.

As recommended above: Hard Disk Sentinel is excellent.

For the future: to help to avoid/reduce the impact of this: have e.g. Crystal Diskinfo (free) running in the background, set to continuously monitor your disks against set trhesholds and alert you to degradation.

And of course regularly and routinely use disk imaging, which as, you've discovered, verifies the integrity of your imaged data.

Hi @imaddicted2u

steve108 said:

@imaddicted2u,

I see multiple cautions in each CDI screenshot for two drive letters in each.

Please provide Disk Management screenshots that cover all drives involved here:
How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management

1. As indicated by steve108, please provide a Windows Disk Management screenshot with only the 12TB external drive plugged in. Follow the guidelines here, How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management. ( Do hide Console Tree and Action Pane, resize the columns, drag the disk map seperator up so that we can see all drives and information..)

2. Both the 1TB internal drive and the 12 TB external drive that is used as destination for the backups seem to be faulty. Now get another External HDD ( immediate). and backup the 500GB SSD system disk using Macrium Reflect. ( If the 12TB external Drive indeed proves to be bad with lot of bad sectors, all data in bad sectors is already lost and your backups in it corrupted. No back up is really a backup unless the backup is saved to two different media/locations.)

3. I believe that the 1TB internal drive contains only data like installed programs ( *.exe), and other personal data with the programs themselves installed in the system drive and no system files had been shifted to the 1TB drive, This data should always be backed up 1:1. No imaging. Copy all accessible data in batches to a folder named Data in the new external drive.

4. We may start toubleshooting and recovery process only after this. But nothing is guranteed.

5. Immedately you can provide the screenshots of Hard Disk Sentinel which will show the status of your 12TB and 1TB drives Hard Disk Sentinel Trial version - HDD health and temperature monitoring

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No comments.

I had exactly this experience with a HDD- fine when I imaged it previously, Next time very much as you show.

I transferred the data (it was data only) and replaced it.

By way of an experiment I reformatted it: HDSentinel reported an improvement. I chose not to rely on it after that though.

See too my post above (unacknowledged).

@imaddicted2u

The fact that you have started using Macrium Reflect just now says that you really do not have a backup of your System disk much less a backup of your data in the 1TB drive.

Both the disks show there are bad sectors.

Your first priority will be to remove all malware in your system.

Download and run the free version of Malwarebytes.

Once the system is clean, I would recommend that you do a low level format of your 12TB external disk using HDD Low level format Tool. That will write zeroes to all sectors. All data in 12TB disk will be wiped. Shouldn't really matter , since you have nothing worthwhile on it right now (or you can copy all data in it to a new drive and then do the low level format)

Once low level format is completed ( which will take a longtime it being 12TB), initialise it as a GPT drive and do a regular full format. Full format will check for bad sectors and remap those if possible. Full format will again take a long long time. After full format, Check with Hard Disk Sentinel and Crystal Disk info. If no bad sectors are reported you can use it for backup. If bad sectors are still reported, as dalchina said it is better not to rely on it for backups. Buy a new drive. (You can use the 12TB disk for non-critical data which you can afford to lose.)

First backup your system drive using Macrium Reflect.

For backing up the "all data" 1TB disk You can use Syncback free . Create a 1.2 TB partition on the backup disk and use it as its destination. As I said earlier all data in the bad sectors is already lost. So some files may be corrupt. After backing up all data that can be copied, you can try chkdsk /r.

Malwarebytes: https://www.malwarebytes.com/solutio...s-10-antivirus

HDD Low level format Tool : Download Windows Executable (works without installation): HDD Low Level Format Tool ver.4.40 from
HDDGURU: HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool

CAUTION: When using this tool make sure you select the correct disk to wipe - Your 12TB Seagate drive and not your 500GB system disk, not your 1TB data disk



SyncBack Free: SyncBackFree - free backup software for Windows

Hi all -

I’m bowing out on this issue since @jumanji kindly responded. I still feel that low-level hardware diagnostics should be run on the motherboard.

I’ll be monitoring the outcome.

Cheers. 😕