True Image boot disk changes order of partitions AND letters?
I've read about TI boot disk (using 2009) changing drive letters http://forum.acronis.com/forum/24692 but for me, it also completely rearranges the order of partitions.
IOW, it may put (at least in the UI), the very last partition - physically, of say 4 partitions, 3rd or 2nd in order. The real disk order of partions & letters are C, D,E,F, The last partition (an OEM recovery partition) was L:. Acronis boot CD (yeah, Linux) may list the last partition L:, in front of F or E, and change the real letter of E or F (which were in order - no missing letters) to G or H or I... I get it changing the letters, but actually showing the partitions completely out of order?
It showed the MBR as the last partition, in both the BU creation UI & looking at the BU image. In this case, I backed up all but 1 partition on a disk, so not a full disk image.
When I restore partitions from that type image, will it restore the correct (orig) letters (when I point which partition goes where)?
If I do a full disk image, & a full disk restore, when the linux boot disk rearranges everything, after the restore is complete, does it actually put everything back in the right place, w/ correct drive letters?
Thanks.
Thanks dev-anon, Clarifying, are you saying that TI does NOT show partitions in the TI GUI, in the same order as they PHYSICALLY reside on the disk? (Except in Disk Director) When you say, "a bar in the disk director," is that Acronis Disk Director?
Both the UI of restore image process & "explore" the image, (I was viewing the image made w/ boot disk, from Windows) show partitions out of order & some wrong drive letters. In Restore UI, it does show volume names, at least.
I see when begin a restore job (but haven't completed one), after choosing partition(s) to restore, at some point - esp. in the summary - TI shows something like, " restore H: (Shared profiles) -> F:". So, even though it says it will change the drive letter back to correct one,
1) IF I SELECT ALL THE PARTITIONS AT ONCE (or one partition) for a restore (this was NOT a full disk BU), will TI put the partitions in ORIGINAL positions on restored disk, and give them the original drive letters?
* It's very odd that IF TI keeps info to revert INcorrect partition letters & positions (shown in image file), back to CORRECT letters / positions, during a restore, why it doesn't use the same info to show correct info in the image file GUI all the time, instead of making it confusing?
* TI not showing volume names when explore the BU file, makes it more difficult to find things, esp. when partition order has been changed!!
Have to check, but don't remember other imaging prgms changing original partition positions / letters in the image file (even doing BU from boot disk). Could be wrong.
If you select all partitions at once, but not the MBR+Track0, each partition will be restore according to its placement (the placement information is preserved although the way the partitions are listed in the UI is alphabetical. To change the way they are listed, you can select to view the starting sector of each partition and order accordingly - at least you can do it with 2010/2011/2012 CD versions).
The reason why ATI is "changing" the drive letter is because it is running its own drivers. That is a weird thing but without consequence if you use disk labels (ATI doesn't change the disk labels) and you know about it.
Cheryl,
How the partitions are displayed is under the control of the user but the default view is very confusing.
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