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Backup to SD Card Mounted in NTFS folder

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I recently installed the recommended Win10 upgrade (huge) and noticed the z-drive SD card I use for evening maintenance no longer keeps its z-letter drive selection (changes to d drive).  This apparently is a Microsoft driver issue for SD cards. The SD card manufacturer support (SanDisk) was useless in helping me resolve this issue.

So I mounted my SD card in an empty NTFS folder using Disk Management (i.e., one of the selections under change drive letter or paths). Windows 10 (updated) does not lose or change this information.

I can use this folder location for most of my automated backup routines (e.g., SyncBackSE). But I can't figure out how to use this location for Acronis TrueImage.

Any thoughts?

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Keith,

You should be able to navigate to the folder in the Location selection process and find it there.  Your process has essentially created a Junction point for the SD drive so path begins at the folder level so you need to start there.

ya'd think huh.

the zdrive folder does not appear when you navigate there with acronis. it's there when i navigate with syncbackse, hence the post here on the acronis website.

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Keith, I did a small test using the only SD card I have available (512MB) and formatted this to NTFS then mounted it to folder C:\SD512 - the SD card being shown as F: in 'This PC'.

ATI 2021 did not see the C:\SD512 folder in either the Source or Destination dialogue panels but had no problem with see the original SD card as the F: drive.

I was able to make a small Files & Folders backup to F:

This to me says that Acronis ignores junctions such as the mounted SD card folder.

Yes you've confirmed my original post. The problem is that the latest Win10 update SD driver does NOT keep the z-drive designation I give to my SD card. When it's removed and replaced it reverts back to the first empty letter (usually D, but can be E or F depending on what's attached). So the scheduled Acronis backup fails.

I got around this problems for SyncbackSE by using the drive-mapped-to-folder solution and it's bizarre if Acronis doesn't support these ''junction points'' or have some work-around.

 

Can you roll back the SD driver to a previous version?

Any hints on how that might be done would be welcome.

According to this post..

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/sd-d…

...the best bet is to use the SD manufacturer's driver, but SanDisk was particularly unhelpful in that request .

 

Keith, I would suggest checking what device driver is in use at present then see if you are offered an option to roll back that driver or not?  Otherwise, finding an alternative driver for the specific SD card reader would be best if one is available.

ROLLING BACK DRIVERS - if you want to make that process easier, use DriverEasy and make a driver backup before update.  Works a charm.  A twenty per machine a year saves your ass from suffering the indignity of putting off updates and running into a blooper..

I am surprised that SD cards aren't allowed as boot devices.  Maybe if I run it through a USB adapter - but I have this super-speed slot.

Strategy is of course to copy over a file from any other source.  SD being ideal to carry in your shoe if you want to.  It is, after all, a video medium.

If you're using it for BU, it makes sense to format NTFS.

That's all I've got - yeah there are limits in these kits that you have to learn and adapt to.