TBI is not a valid image file (13)
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:18 pm
As a fairly technical person, I only come to this forum when I face the hardest of problems using your products, so bare with me, I know my questions can be very technical. But I’m not necessarily looking for direct answers, but to a greater extent; guidance.
I have a 200 GB TBI file that I generated from one of my personal hard drives a couple years ago. I don’t normally have any problems with your software so I didn’t bother to verify the integrity of the image file the day I produced it. Today when trying to access this file using TBIView I got the error: “TBI is not a valid image file (13)”. After a quick search through the forums I noticed that the problem could be that I wasn’t using the latest version of TBIView, so I went and got the latest version but still got the same error. I don’t know if the file was made corrupted or got corrupted by transferring it to different storage media a few times, I really don’t know. I would appreciate some help answering these few questions:
1. Since this file is over 200 GB large, can nothing really be recovered from this file?
2. Is there any public documentation of the TBI file format?
3. What exactly does the “13” in the error message “TBI is not a valid image file (13)” mean?
4. What initial checks are done on the file before it even displays the partition ID to choose from? I ask because on a 200GB file, that check seems really quick (a couple of seconds), so it’s definitely not checking the integrity of the entire file, most probably just a few bytes in the beginning of the file.
5. Does the TBI file store any information such as the original serial number of the HDD? I ask this because I just might have the hard drive still lying around and might be able to extract some information from it.
6. The information in the TBI file was made from my personal data and I really don’t mind sharing it for the purpose of data retrieval. Would it be at all possible to get any sort of help from the Terabyte Unlimited technical team if I uploaded the file into a cloud storage of my choice and have someone look at it?
Thanks in advance for any help given. I’m a few minutes away from starting on my journey of trying to reverse the TBI file format as most of my days seem to be spent hacking/reversing something. At this point it’s not even about getting the data back, I just love grasping the opportunity of learning something new. It’d be great if I can get my data back but even greater if I could make a tool that could decipher the TBI file format any make it available to many.
I have a 200 GB TBI file that I generated from one of my personal hard drives a couple years ago. I don’t normally have any problems with your software so I didn’t bother to verify the integrity of the image file the day I produced it. Today when trying to access this file using TBIView I got the error: “TBI is not a valid image file (13)”. After a quick search through the forums I noticed that the problem could be that I wasn’t using the latest version of TBIView, so I went and got the latest version but still got the same error. I don’t know if the file was made corrupted or got corrupted by transferring it to different storage media a few times, I really don’t know. I would appreciate some help answering these few questions:
1. Since this file is over 200 GB large, can nothing really be recovered from this file?
2. Is there any public documentation of the TBI file format?
3. What exactly does the “13” in the error message “TBI is not a valid image file (13)” mean?
4. What initial checks are done on the file before it even displays the partition ID to choose from? I ask because on a 200GB file, that check seems really quick (a couple of seconds), so it’s definitely not checking the integrity of the entire file, most probably just a few bytes in the beginning of the file.
5. Does the TBI file store any information such as the original serial number of the HDD? I ask this because I just might have the hard drive still lying around and might be able to extract some information from it.
6. The information in the TBI file was made from my personal data and I really don’t mind sharing it for the purpose of data retrieval. Would it be at all possible to get any sort of help from the Terabyte Unlimited technical team if I uploaded the file into a cloud storage of my choice and have someone look at it?
Thanks in advance for any help given. I’m a few minutes away from starting on my journey of trying to reverse the TBI file format as most of my days seem to be spent hacking/reversing something. At this point it’s not even about getting the data back, I just love grasping the opportunity of learning something new. It’d be great if I can get my data back but even greater if I could make a tool that could decipher the TBI file format any make it available to many.