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Need option to keep original disk name during restore of complete disk

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to I ran into a problem during a restore of my C: drive and all its partitions. If the backup you are restoring from was taken from another disk (not C:), when you restore the disk it changes the disk name to the one in the backup. This screws up the Windows boot manager and requires you to manually edit the BCD once you change the name back. The BCD doesn't allow 2 disks with the same name. 

It would be nice have an option to be able to keep the name of the disk you are restoring to or to be able to rename the disk back to the original name before you boot the restored disk. 

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Mike, I have not come across any issues in this area but I may not be fully understanding what the exact issue is here?

Can you clarify exactly what you are doing here?

Drive names are stored within the Windows Registry information as far as I understand, so if you are doing a full restore of a disk that was an OS drive, then the name held in the registry for that drive as it was when it was backed up would be the one restored / used for the drive.

It almost sounds as if you are restoring to a second drive in the same computer if you are ending up with 2 disks having the same drive name?  So are you trying to restore in a dual-boot scenario here?