Yes, the customer is using 2012, and the instance I was trying to restore to was 2012 as well.

We are leaning towards the hard drive being bad.

Thanks to everyone for...

Thanks, Steve. I'm definitely going to ask the client to verify their latest backup.

Thanks 🙂

Yes, that was the last thing I tried before I posted my question here.

I received the same error. 🙁

I am waiting on a response from the client to see...

So when y'all say the file might be corrupt - that could mean that the .bak file (on the client's end) might be okay - but the copy I have...

Thanks. I am going to try that once I can get the hard drive hooked up to another machine tomorrow when I'm in the office.

If it fails as well,...

I apologize - I didn't actually put that in the first post! Restore headeronly works just fine.

For your question "Also, do you have any IO related errors in the...