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Drive Letters after recovery.

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Hello,

I have installed Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit (Version 1511) on a drive with two separate partitions (C: and D:) and I've backuped the whole volume into one Image with Acronis True Image 2016. (System Reserved partition, C: and D:)
Now I would like to recover both partitions on two separate drives again (Also C: and D:).
This should be no problem with Acronis, but all my user accounts are stored on D:

How can I get sure, that the recovered drive D is getting the same Drive letter (D) in a system with a total of 4 drives after recovery?

If Windows starts the first time after recovery and drive D: will be not on the "right place", I'm 100% sure that I will get an error message as follows: "User account can not be loaded."

I know that Windows try to creat a temorary account in safe mode, but in a temporary profile, you can not start Disk Management to change the drive letters, or?

So my question is, does True Image consider such a case, or does someone know how I can change the drive letter's without existing user profile?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English.

Chris

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Driver letters are set in Windows, not by Acronis.  If you restore the disk, they should maintain the original drive letters. 

HOWEVER, keep in mind that Windows can only have one driver letter at a time.  If you have your original drive booted up and your new restored  drive installed at the same time, the second instance of the drive will show up with different drive letters for that session.  If you then boot to the OS on the restored drive , it will be C and D, but your original drive will show up in that session with different letters.

It's not recommended to have the same instance of the restored backup and the original drive installed at teh same time anyway though.  If you restore, disconnect the original and boot the restored drive and make sure it recovered as expected. Better to test this with a working session to make sure it is restored as expected (using a different drive than the original) and make sure it is working as expected, then to have to do this for a real world scenario and find out that it's not as expected at that point.