Backup fails with fatal error "Destination drive disconnected"

[Daniel Walker]

I am using Windows 11 on a Dell Inspiron 7415 laptop. I have been trying to backup 6 partitions on my hard drive, to an 128GB USB drive, but after writing around 4GB (out of around 90GB) I consistently get the following error:

"Fatal error: Operation failed and must be cancelled. The error given was: Destination drive disconnected"

I checked to make sure the USB drive was connected ok and that there is enough free space on it. I can write a file to the USB drive from Windows without a problem.

I tried the using the USB drive with the second USB port on the laptop and the same fatal error occurred. I also tried an alternative USB drive with the same error. I also tried backing up all the partitions to an external hard drive, and this actually worked ok.

Many thanks,

Daniel

[Daniel Walker]

I have been using version 4.0.0 of RedoRescue.

[Julian]

Hey, I have exactly the same problem. Even the part with the external hard drive.
Did you find a solution?

Dear, Julian

[Manu Buhay]

My issue was I used rufus to create a bootable usb for redo rescue. I initially used etcher which was recommended on their site but was too lazy to redownload it so I figured maybe rufus can be a good alternative. Using etcher fixed the issue for me, and it was what I used a lot previously for redo rescue until I got lazy.

[Manu Buhay]

I forgot to note that my destination drive is on a network share that needs authentication. On a centos lxc container running samba with proxmox as host OS.

[Zdeněk Hruška]

I had the same problem and I tried many things including moving HDD to another computer - results were the same. Even different versions (3.0.2 and 4.0) had the same error (no matter what software was used to create bootable flash).
My solution: Make bootable flash drive with Ubuntu linux, boot to it, run Disk program, select each partition on each drive and perform Repair partition on it. Reboot again into Redo and now it should work without error.