Restoring Windows 7 with System Reserved as C

You might find that those assignments are what Acronis sees before the backup. I have seen similar and it is very confusing, however as long as you assign the MBR to the right drive, and select the volumes you want to restore to the right disks/partitions, when the restore is complete, the volumes have the correct letter assignments.

When i have selected a volume i do avoid pressing the change button after that as it does strange things and can sometimes screw up the restore, leaving the system unbootable.

Hello all!

First of all thank you, Em, for bringing this question up.

I would like to confirm that Darryl Leaning's statement regarding the drive letters is perfectly correct: due to our Acronis Bootable Rescue Media is a Linux based one it may show you another drive letters, but after recovery everything will be in place. You can find more information regarding the question in this KB article.

I would also like to mention that there should be no issues with switching the destination partition for recovery, so the behaviour Darrel met is an unlikely one, so we would be glad if you could kindly give us additional details regarding the issue - we would like to investigate it and lead to its complete resolution.

Feel free to share your concerns and suggestions with us as well!

Thank you!

As amazing as it seems, I encountered the exact same peculiarity using Acronis True Image 2013. After restoring the MBR, the reserved partition and the system partition, Windows 7 would not boot. I booted up using the Windows 7 install disc and selected Repair mode. Windows 7 very quickly identified that the problem was due to the system being located on drive D: and it made the neccessary changes to the boot loader. From that point on, the system booted up perfectly. However, I was very upset about the fact that the system would now be on drive D: instead of drive C: . To my amazement, after booting up, I discovered that the system was indeed resident on drive C: !!

The take away from this is that, while it initially appears to be a real problem, it does produce the desired results. Given all of the other peculiarities of Microsoft software, I can easily live with this one!!