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Recovery Disk UEFI/GPT Disk Designation Confusion

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I hope I'm creating this post in the right area. While messing with One Drive, I deleted all Icons and folders on my desktop, oops.  Since I make a backup each evening I assumed that a quick restore would have me back up and running in no time.  First order of business, get the computer to boot from the installed CD recovery disk by changing the computers boot order from UEFI Shell to the UEFI CD.  No issues there, the recovery disk booted up as advertised.  When I went to the restore screen to start setting things up, all drive assignments had been changed.  For example, my original drive names and letter designations corresponded to each other as listed below.

Charlie C:\ (boot drive)
Delta D:\
Echo E:\
Foxtrot F:\
and so on...

When I went to select the drive to restore, my drive names no longer corresponded to the original letter designations. See my example below.

Echo C:\   (echo is where my backup files are)
Charlie D:\
Foxtrot E:\
Delta F:\

Assuming that I want to restore my C:\ drive, which one would I pick as now my Echo drive is labeled C:\.  If I chose my C:\ drive, would I be restoring to my original boot drive or to the drive Echo which contains my backup files?

For the record, I don't recall the size of the physical drives being listed in the restore options.  I could have used that bit of information to identify the proper boot disk.   I'm really confused and would really appreciate some help.   Thanks in advance.

-Mark
 

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Mark, welcome to these User Forums.

When doing any recovery from the Acronis Rescue Media (CD/DVD or USB stick etc) there is always a warning that drive letters may be different to those you see when booted into your Windows OS environment.

For this reason alone, I would recommend always using clear labels for all your drives / partitions so that you can easily identify what their purpose / use is.

2018-09-12 13_13_57 Drive labels.png

Next, assuming that your Windows OS system is working OK at this time, apart from having deleted your desktop icons & folders by accident, then you probably do not need to use the Acronis Rescue Media to recover from this error.

Open File Explorer and navigate to your backup drive, then double-click on your backup image .tib file to open it, further navigate to find the backup copies of the deleted icons & folders from your Desktop folder and use Copy & Paste to bring these back to your actual desktop.