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My backups are missing on a backup partition when looking for it in Windows 8

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I have a 1 TB drive partitioned into several partitions. There is a system partition, a c drive called boot, a d drive called data, an e drive called games. an f drive called storage, a g drive called thebackup, and finally an h drive called videowork. Been doing this since windows 95. Have never ever had a problem until now when I boot up on the acronis trueimage restore backup boot disk. I create a FULL backup of the c drive (boot) to the(G) drive which is named thebackup and also again create a backup of c drive (boot) to a 1 TB usb drive. All is well as long as I boot up on the acronis cd. The backup appears from both the main 1TB hard drive in the backup partition. It also is listed on the 1TB usb drive. In other words I have a valid boot drive backup located in two locations, (double safety).

Npw here is the problem, I reboot and run Windows 8 from the main hard drive (boot( and use file explorer and of course all partitions show up BUT the backup of boot is not shown on the Thebackup drive, but IT IS shown on the usb drive. Its like Windows 8 hid it however I have shows all files, and hide nothing configured in the flie explorer views. Never had this with Windows 7 , XP, 98, or 95. Is it a Windows thing or Acronis problem. After a while of doing several backups the backup partition gets full but not according to windows since not all the backups are listed. Quite frustrating. Even tried a new hard drive and started over. with all new partitions

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There is a permissions issue when backing up from the Linux based Rescue Media to a drive created and controlled by Windows 8. This has been discussed in other posts here on the forum.

On my system, when I use the 2013 Rescue Media to create a folder and to back up into it, when booted back into Windows 8, I can see both the folder and the files, but do not have full permissions on them.

If you are comfortable changing security permissions on a drive, you can grant full access to the group everyone to the "G" drive to determine if you then can "see" the files. Even if this works, you will still need to edit the permissions on the files themselves as they are created without the ability to receive inheritable permissions from the drive/volume.

This issue has been reported to Acronis and is under investigation.