True Image 2106 will not restore PC from USB on which backup is located because the USB drive letter is different
I had a major problem yesterday and finally decided I just need to restore my notebook from my Acronis True Image backup. So I plugged in the USB drive where I keep the back up and hit restore PC.
I got an error message that basically said can't find the backup on H:/Seagate Backup USB. I looked in windows explorer and for some reason it assigned the letter I: instead of H:. OK - I see I can change the "destination" location on that page, so I changed it to I:/Seagate Backup USB. It saw the drive and was happy about that. However, it still has in it's settings somewhere that my backup is on H:\Seagate Backup USB and gives me the same error.
I can't find anywhere in the program where to simply change where the program looks for the backup. This is enough to make me change backup programs, as I'm already very frustrated since my laptop is having issues, and all I want to do is plug in the USB drive where the backkup is and restore my PC.
Where is the option to look somewhere else for the backup?


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Steve, thanks for the feeback. Somehow I missed finding this in any documentation with the program.
Since the laptop is still running at the moment, sounds like I need to immediately make a Standard rescue media USB and a Windows PE one (USB sticks are inexpensive!) Maybe a couple of each and store them in the safe place I store my USB backup drive.
Thanks very much!
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Jeffrey, no problem with the feedback, glad to offer help.
If you are looking at the WinPE USB Rescue Media, then please see the MVP Tool - Custom ATI WINPE BUILDER tool (link in my signature) as this creates a much more useful version of the rescue media and incorporates (if you choose to do so) a web browser, file manager etc, plus it can also make both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I have the 32-bit media created because I have an older Samsung Netbook (NC10) which has a 32-bit Atom processor and this works great on that, plus it will also work equally well on 64-bit systems.
The default Acronis WinPE media made directly from the application can only create the 64-bit media.
You shouldn't need to have both the Standard (Linux) media and also the WinPE media unless you have some Ubuntu or other Linux flavour systems you want to use the former for to backup offline.
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