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Restoring Cloned Drive

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I have cloned my C:drive.

Now I want to restore the C:drive by cloning the cloned drive back to the C:Drive.

If I use the cloned drive which is shown as drive G: on my computer and clone from drive G to drive C, the C drive is cloned from the G drive but shows up as drive G when I am finished.

The only way I have been able to do this is to remove drive C and replace it with the cloned drive. And then clone C: back to the old C drive which has become drive G:

Then I replace the drives again and my C: drive is the C: drive like it is supposed to be.

Is there a way to clone back to the C: drive from Drive G: and make sure drive C: stays drive C:?

JB

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Hello Jerry,

I understand the question and will do everything possible from my side to give you a clear explanation.

If you are using Acronis bootable disc then it can be the case, because the full version of Acronis Bootable Rescue Media uses Linux environment and this results in the default Linux letter assignment rules, which may be different from the ones in Windows. Have you tried to boot from the cloned G drive, was it successful?

 If the issue persists I would recommend you to use full drive/partition backup instead of clone feature. Using Acronis bootable disc you can successfully restore full drive image to another hard drive, preserving OS, all applications and data.

Let me know if you need further assistance or have some questions.

Thank you.

Since you're doing a two-step process anyway, you might consider doing a full hdisk backup instead of a clone. This gives you some added flexibility -- for example, you can fit more than one backup per storage disk.

When you restore, put the new target disk in the PC in place of the the old C: drive and then restore to it and it should show up as C:.