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ATI 2016 trys to restore from WRONG DISK & FOLDER!

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I am running ATI 2016 on Windows 10 Home x64.  

I have made several backups and restored several times as well with no problems.  I noticed a few weeks ago that my disk restore failed because Acronis rebooted and tried to load the backup image from the wrong drive letter!  I think at that time I had to boot from a USB stick to select the file manually.  

Today I tried to restore the disk from the same backup, and again, it rebooted and failed.  It was trying to restore from the Y: drive!?  And it also listed the wrong folder!!

I am looking at my backup in Acronis TI right now and it is located here:
E:\True Image Backups\Maximus VIII Extreme\Weekly Backup\

But when it rebooted, the file it was trying to access was located here:
Y:\True Image Backups\Cosmos S x64\Weekly\

Why does it use drive Y:?  Why does it use a Drive Letter at all?  In windows Disk Management this is Disk 0.

The Folder that it uses is actually in my ATI backup list, right after the one that I am trying to backup.  And I just looked into it's folder and the file does not exist.  I must have deleted it a while back..  So, I will remove it from Acronis now.  And try again.

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Acronis drive letters don't mean anything - the bootable media is Linux based and will assign drive letters as it sees fit.  However, when you recover data, you need to be sure to select the correct drive/partitions so using unique names to identify them, and/or knowing their exact size is a good idea before restoring.   

 

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/index.html#…

Assign unique names (labels) to all partitions on your hard drives. This will make finding the disk containing your backups easier.

When you use the Acronis True Image 2016 rescue media, it creates disk drive letters that might differ from the way Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: disk identified in the standalone Acronis True Image 2016 might correspond to the E: disk in Windows.