True Image Home renames my restored partition from C: to G:

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I have an older (2004) Win XP system with 2 physical drives and two CD/DVD Drives. Drive 1 (ATA) has two partitions, C and D. the CD's are E: and F: and Drive 2 is G. I bought a bigger drive (PATA), did a full image backup of Drive 1 (C and D) to a usb drive and now want to restore.
I disconnected Drive 2, booted from Acronis CD image (full) and tried to restore from the usb. All looked good until I saw the summary before restore. Notably: C: >> F: and D: >> G:. I need C: to be C: and D: to be D:, obviously, for boot purposes.
Questions:
Why is it renaming my partitions?
How can I force it to restore the partitions correctly and name them correctly?
If I can't, what tools can I run (from a bootable CD since I can't boot from my HD) that will let me rename my partitions?
Thanks in advance.
Wade

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 15:03
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Hi Wade, you have posted this in the Disk Director rather than the True Image forum but as far as drive letters go the overall message is similar.

When you boot from an Acronis rescue CD the drive letters will not necessarily be the same as those shown in Windows. It is highly recommended that you assign names to disks/partitions which will show up the same. Using TI to restore becomes much clearer. Even without names it should be easy enough to spot which partition is which and don't worry about the drive letters, your system will still be C and D will still be D once recovered.

I'm not entirely sure what it is you are trying to achieve though. PATA were called simply ATA before SATA drives came along so are the same, so I assume you want to replace the old system disk with the new one, and the easiest way to do that would be to connect the new drive as drive 2 and clone the old one directly onto it. Then you can simply swap the new drive as drive 1 and connect the old drive 2 back again.

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 13:57