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Recovery Changed my Boot Drive Letter from C:\ to E:\

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I am now recovering my system. The function has changed my drive letter (boot Drive) from C:\ to E:\ can I change it back under Windows 7 disk management ?

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Well I recovered my disk image from my D:\ drive on my notebook and the drive letters are all correct.. I don't know why in the menu during the recovery process it says C: then arrow pointing to E:\ ????

Marty:

The operating system used in the recovery environment is Linux, which has different rules for enumerating drives. So the drive letters may be different than what Windows shows.

As you found out, you can ignore the drive letters while in the recovery environment. It's best if you give your drives meaningful names so that it's easy to tell what's what when recovering.

Marty:

I have this happen to me when I do some (not all) image restores. I now think it is caused by my motherboard bios somehow. In my bios settings IDE is expected however SATA is also allowed. When I use SATA (which I always do) the SATA system drive is listed as the 5th (& 6th) available hard drive. The fifth drive letter is "E". My first four drive choices are IDE. TI gets the right drive but thinks it is E. :-(

If I had a newer motherboard, that had a newer bios, I'm sure this "drive E" thing wouldn't be a problem. Since I'm not going to buy a new motherboard just to get Acronis TI to do what I want, I expect that some restores are going to end up with scrambled drive letters. The restored data is always correct after doing a few drive letter swaps.

By the way, I have exactly the same problem when using the free version of Macrium imaging, which also works about as well as TI.

My solution is: I always do restores from a boot CD that is a BART-PE disk. This has the Acronis 2009 TI plug-in installed on it. As soon as the TI restore is complete, without rebooting I use the BART's Win XP to go directly to Windows Disk Manager and fix the letters right then and there. Next I can remove the BART cd and boot to Win XP and be on my way.

Fungus