Backup fails after update to Windows 10 October version
My backup will not start. I get this error message. "... plug in the external drive." The external drive is plugged in since I can reach the files. This problem started yesterday after I updated Windows 10 to the October update.


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Yup - Windows 10 major upgrades tend to resize partitions in order to create a new "Windows Recovery Partition" that includes the winre.wim used for native Windows repair and recovery. In the process of the upgrade, the partition changes, end up modifying the disk identifier and so the source of the backup task usually needs to be "re-picked in order to update this change in the backup task too.
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Another possibility is that the drive letter assigned to the drive has changed; this is more likely to happen if it was not attached during the Windows 10 update. Again this should be solved by reselecting the target drive.
This should not happen as Acronis no longer uses disk ID, it uses partition ID - this could also cause issues if as suggested in earlier responses a new partition is added to the boot disk.
Ian
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