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[BUG] Restore applies wrong drive letter

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When you select Restore the displayed dialog correctly shows both source and target. In my case I selected a backup of drive A and Acronis confirmed that it would restore it to drive A (-> see attached picture #1). That's exactly what I wanted. Once the restore completes you find everything messed up. Absolutely nothing residing on (former) drive A works and you're showered with tons of errors. It took me some time to realize that Restore had applied drive letter D to the restored drive. Once I corrected the drive letter everything worked fine.

Of course, you can spent your time sitting over protocols and check everything with more detail than I did. But a restore is nothing funny and you're in full stress anyway. And I have several machines to take care of. In the end it might appear like a minor flaw, but we're talking reliability here, aren't we?

Also, when you start another backup for the formerly restored drive (which is now correctly set to A), Acronis displays an error message saying that the partition selected for the backup cannot be found (-> see attached picture #2). This is because Acronis seems to have reason to change the (backup!) setting for the drive to letter D.

And if anyone should wonder: It's for quite some years now that Windows treats drive letters A and B just the same as the remaining letters C to Z. It was in the times of old that A and B were for exclusive use with floppy drives only. Acronis should adapt to that. Obviously, when restoring, Acronis thinks that A somehow cannot be and simply assigns the next free drive letter, which in this case was D as I had disconnected an external CD drive for some minutes. My drive letters run from A to Z and when I say restore to A, then I really mean it.

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Hi #BS#,

Are you using the Rescue CD to Restore?

What Version of Windows are you using to restore from and what are you restoring? Operating system?

you said:
> nd if anyone should wonder: It's for quite some years now that Windows treats drive letters A and B just the same as the remaining letters C to Z. It was in the times of old that A and B were for exclusive use with floppy drives only. Acronis should adapt to that. Obviously, when restoring, Acronis thinks that A somehow cannot be and simply assigns the next free drive letter, which in this case was D as I had disconnected an external CD drive for some minutes. My drive letters run from A to Z and when I say restore to A, then I really mean it."

You are wrong there, because the operating system will always take the Letter C:. Any other letter is fair game.

What have you named Drive A:\?

I had not used the Rescue CD. Windows is 10. No operating system, partition holds the (non system-) executables. And no, Windows will not ALWAYS take C. This would just be the default. If you prefer, you may install your "system" on F, R, Q or anything. See picture 1 on your question for the name of the drive. Anyway, drive C was not touched here by any means. As I mentioned above, drive A (running for months) was restored to drive D for no comprehensible reason.

#BS# wrote:

I had not used the Rescue CD. Windows is 10. No operating system, partition holds the (non system-) executables. And no, Windows will not ALWAYS take C. This would just be the default. If you prefer, you may install your "system" on F, R, Q or anything. See picture 1 on your question for the name of the drive. Anyway, drive C was not touched here by any means. As I mentioned above, drive A (running for months) was restored to drive D for no comprehensible reason.

Hi #BS#,

You are right and wrong. You can install Windows 10 Pro on any partition, but Windows 10 will take the Drive C name, so when you open up Windows File Explorer, it will show you C:\Windows, regardless of the partition it is installed on. I don't have any Windows Installation on the beginning partition of the Hard Drive.

I looked at Jpg #1. It saids SanDisk, probably a Solid State Hard Drive.

I simply don't get what you're about to tell me here. I didn't mention partitions at all. A, C and so on are DRIVES on their own, each of them with just one partition. Anyway, my intent was not to discuss any partitioning scheme here but to show and warn that Acronis produces multiple errors in restoring from valid sources to valid targets.

I suggest that you report your concerns about this aspect of Acronis 2016 using the in app Feedback feature which is in the Help section of the GUI (open book icon).

Ian