True Image Backup with hotswap hard drive
I performed a backup by removing one of my secondary drives (we'll call it 2tb) and inserting a 500gb drive that I use to backup my 120gb ssd C: drive. The backup performed ssuccesfully but after I put my secondary (2tb) drive back in the computer somehow the drives name was changed to that of the 500gb backup drive and I was unable to access my data on the drive. I am currently in the process of recovering it with active file recovery.
I am wondering if there is something I did wrong, or is there any ideas as to how I can prevent the issue from occuring again.
I was using True Image 2013 and am running windows 10 x64
Any help would be hugely appreciated.


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I created a backup (.tib files) ONTO the 500Gb Drive, after the backup succeded I removed the 500Gb Drive and then inserted the 2Tb drive that is used for all of my music, movies, pictures, and other miscelaneous media. What happened then was that the 2Tb drive displayed the name 500 (name of the baclup drive) and when I tried to open the drive it gave me an access denied error and after fixing security permissions there was nothing there
I attached the log if that helps.
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Sean,
I have heard some horror stories with hotswap.
I have two hot swap bays and do use them one for backups but with these rules to myself.
1. No hot swap. Shut the computer down. Make the disk switch in the hot swap bay and reboot.
2. While in normal mode. Use Disk management and specifically assign the normal drive letter to the disk normally in the hotswap bay, so its drive letter is more or less permanent.
3. Shutdown and reinsert the 2T. Using Disk management, specifically assign a different name and different drive letter to the 2T.
4. While 2T is inserted with its new drive letter, create a new TrueImge backup task. The TI task used before will not work due to the changes of disk name and drive letter to the 2T.
5. Do all removal or inserting of the hot swaps when the computer is shut downl\
6. I realize this is not their intended method but my method works for me and the disk always acquire their correct names on bootup following their insertion.
Note: I use the 1st hot swap bay as my boot disk and switch the boot disk monthly and restore my current backup onto the incoming boot so at the time of switching, I always have two identical disk for use as boot disks. It is the 2nd hot bay which I use to contain my backups and you can use more than one disk in the 2nd bay if you assign different names and drive letters. Each backup storage disk needs its own drive letter and disk name.
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