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I have just finished building a new Windows 11 pc. and am backing up my drives to disks on an external caddy which was ok before with my previous pc. The drives in it have not been changed apart from formatting..

Now when setting up the backup to one of the drives the destination drive is in blue with a white A on it. whereas all the others are grey.

I am just doing a backup to it which appears to be going ok..

I have checked the drive and it shows no errors, so what is the problem?

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The drive shown in blue with the white A has been created as an Acronis Survival Kit drive whereas the others are just storage drives.

The option to create a Survival Kit is only offered when you are creating a new Disks & Partitions (or Entire PC) type backup task and are setting the Destination for the task to a suitable external USB drive that can be used for this purpose.
See KB 61639: Acronis True Image: how to create Acronis Survival Kit - for more information on the process.
Also KB 61738: Acronis True Image: Survival Kit disk partition for backups is limited to 2TB on BIOS-booted systems
And Acronis Article:  The Acronis Survival Kit

Hi Steve.

Unfortunately, the survival kit is on one of 5 disks in an external caddy.

If I want to recover I use the USB stick that I have for recovery and recover the C drive inside my pc.

This new method may be of use in some circumstances but I prefer the method that I use if needed.

Is there a way of removing this survival kit from my external drive, and say putting it on one of my internal drives, where it might be more readily accessible?

Or if it is left there will it interfere with the use of USB recovey stick

Thanks anyway,

Richard

Richard, the only way to remove the Survival Kit boot partition from the drive is to use a partition manager program such as the free MiniTool Partition Wizard and use this to delete the 2GB FAT32 partition from the start of the drive then resize the main partition to use that freed space.

The Survival Kit is only intended to be used on external USB drives so putting it on an internal drive would not be an option as Acronis would not see the drive as being removable.

If your are happy with having a USB stick for recovery then just keep using that along with your external caddy drives.

Ramigrafx wrote:

What's  2 GB . I'll leave it as it is.

Thanks,

Richard

 What's 2 GB? I love it. When I started with computers 2 KB was very significant. Memory and money both seem to have scaled up... one for the better, one for the worse.

BrunoC wrote:
Ramigrafx wrote:

What's  2 GB . I'll leave it as it is.

Thanks,

Richard

 What's 2 GB? I love it. When I started with computers 2 KB was very significant. Memory and money both seem to have scaled up... one for the better, one for the worse.

Bruno, I remember those times too. Finetuning memory usage, things like the doshigh command in the autoexc.bat file. Such fun.