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Acronis created folders from a drive not even hooked up?!?

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OS: WIN10(refreshed new couple days ago) 

ATI: 11530

Cleaning up someone's laptop so i took the drive out and tried to back it up to my D: drive. In order to do this i had to shut down my PC and take out my E: drive which i have a bunch of personal folders and some TIB's.

I first used Acronis on a USB stick and it not move data over so then I tried optical and that also did nothing so then I ran it from the desktop software. Also no go. So then i went to manually copy files over. To my surprise i found 5 folders on the laptop's main directory which had the same names of 5 folders of the E: drive I had taken out earlier. All had creation dates from roughly the same time i used the desktop software.

WTH!

At the moment i only see these 5 folders created and there's nothing in them. Counting my self lucky I backed up the laptops user folders to a USB stick a couple of days before but what happened tonight is truly messed up.

Ideas?

 

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One of the clues here is that you say your removed E: drive had some .TIB files stored on it.

From your description, the reason for the folders being created on the second drive is that you have launched the main ATI application which then was looking for the folders associated with your existing backup tasks that wrote to your E: drive.  When those folders weren't found on the current E: drive, ATI created them ready for you to run your backup tasks.

Steve, I believe you explanation is likely to be correct. Some time ago I had something similar happen - I added a new 4 port SATA 3 PCIe card and at the same time added a new HDD, and I temporarily disconnected the drive to which internal backups were being made and Acronis started backing up to the new HDD (an identical WD 3TB Blue).

Ian

In reply to by truwrikodrorow…

" When those folders weren't found on the current E: drive, ATI created them ready for you to run your backup tasks. "

Well that's not dangerous at all now is it. That is beyond scary.

My reply is a couple months late because I've moved to another program. Can not be having this ship done without my permission.

 

Frosty, the only things created are folders and possibly a backup image file if you run a backup task in this circumstance, so whilst that may be an annoyance, it is hardly dangerous or scary (my own opinion only!).  I wish you all the best with using your alternative program solution - that is always the choice for any user to find that which works best.  I have several alternative backup products that I am able to use should the need arise.