For one heat transfer analysis, there came a sudden error and simulation broke. I have restart request with frequency=1 and used overlay option. 

.sta file has last three increment recorded as:

1 30171 1 0 3 3 9.18e+03 9.18e+03 0.005000  
1 30172 1 0 3 3 9.18e+03 9.18e+03 0.005000  
1 30173 1 0 3 3 9.18e+03 9.18e+03 0.005000  

I am trying to restart analysis using inp file and with keywords 

*Restart, read, step=1 

Following error message appear: 

ERROR: THERE IS NO RESTART FRAME ON THE OLD JOB AT STEP 1, INCREMENT 30172

additionally I tried specifying last increment with all last three increment number but restart fails.

is there anyway to restart in this case? what could be wrong. 

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