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Hurtful Restore

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I'm using the 2012 package and have been backing up my primary 'C' drive.

The two partitions - System and Windows - are backed up. However, the system partition is labeled 'Drive D' and Windows is label 'Drive C'. This is obviously not correct.

When I had to do a restore, not knowing this, the Windows files went to my 'C' drive. The system files went to my 'D' drive, causing me to lose everything on my 'D' drive and causing the restored 'C' drive to not be bootable.

There must be a setting to prevent this on backup, but I'm unable to find it.

Can anybody help?

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When restoring, or when booted from the Recovery Media, the OS is linux-based and not Windows. In the linux environment, drive lettering differs. That is the nature of the different OS, not an Acronis issue.

In many forum posts and in tutorials, users are advised NOT to rely on drive letters for identification. You are advised to give a unique name/label to each drive, so you can use those names/labels to identify each drive.

I beg to differ - my 'C' drive is named 'Windows' and my 'D' drive is named 'Backup'.

The .tib partition backup created by Acronis contains two partitions - one named 'C' and one named 'D'. I just created the backup and my 'D' drive was NOT included in the backup. 'C' contains the files from the active partition on my drive 'C - Windows'. 'D' contains the files from the hidden system partition on my drive 'C- Windows'.