External drive letter changed now Acronis cannot find image backup
I installed an additional optical drive and the drive letter on the external drive changed from G: to H: now when I tried to restore an image Acronis reports it cannot find it!
How do I change the drive letter on the Acronis interface from G: to H: to find the backup image?


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As Steve says, you should assign a fixed drive letter to your external drive. Choose a letter high in the alphabet (e.g. M) to avoid its letter changing when other drives are connected.
Windows Disk Management | right-click the external drive | Change drive letters and paths.
While there, you should also add a recognizable label to every partition, so you can uniquely identify them without the drive letter.
And, to reinforce what Steve says, you should not restore disks or partitions from the Windows application. Do it after booting from the ATI Rescue Media.
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In reply to Scopio, if Acronis is… by truwrikodrorow…
Along these same lines, but without changing the drive letter:
Just last night, I found that when I changed the connection on my backup drive from USB to eSATA, without changing the drive letter (The drive ID as displayed by MOUNTVOL did not change), my nightly backup failed to find it.
Oddly, when I went to "change destination" on the Backup page of the TI program, it immediately selected the proper drive and the target directory.
Apparently, the GUI front end knows how to find the drive better than the internal backup routines.
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