Can't choose C: as as logical drive letter on recover
I run an Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office 2021 for backup. I have a backup including C: and track 0 from august. When I try to recover to an empty disk, I can't choose C: as logical drive letter for the Windows partition. First available was D:. Later I tried running the recover one more time. Now first available letter is H:. I can't recover the windows installation partition as C:. When booting the computer again, it says the boot is corrupt and I should use repair tools. I have no repair tool that solves the issue. The basic problem is that I can't set the correct drive letter for the boot partition. And why has it changed the second time I run?
Why?


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Thanks for the answer.
I want to recover my C drive and track 0 from a backup on an external USB drive. The "auto" setting on drive C drive letter doesn't work so I'm trying to hard-set the drive letters.
I know they are different environments, the recover and the normal running. Why is then the available device letters for the running environment setup according to the recover environment? Now it set drive letters as used in parameter setting for a recovery when they are used in the recover environment. That doesn't seem correct because it's not the same environment.
Let me explain.When I set parameters for drive C recovery, I can't choose drive letter C because it's used by the recover boot USB memory stick. But the recover USB drive will not be there with drive letter C when I boot up my recovered Win. So why this mix of drive letters in recover environment and running environment when it's two completely different situation?
Or am I completely missing something?
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Windows drive letter assignments are determined by a combination of the physical drive that the OS is installed on and the hardware placement (SATA controller and port).
The recovery media OS uses its own rules for allocating drive letters which are often different to how letters are assigned in Windows.
The key factor here is to restore your backup image to the correct target drive and ensure that the PC BIOS boot settings are correctly pointing to the correct drive (Legacy boot) or to the Windows Boot Manager from the correct drive (UEFI boot).
It doesn't matter that the Recovery media environment shows a different drive letter than C: when doing the restore - this will be resolved by the OS when it boots.
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