Pathway lost
I know that you've heard this one before, but I can't readily find it in previous posts. When my backup starts, I get a message saying that the backup pathway is not found. All worked fine before. Is there an easy fix for that? I have no problem deleting previous backups or even reinstalling the program. If I reinstall, will there be a problem because I'm using 2015 version? Thanks in advance for your help.


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I'd go with Steve's recommendation:
One recommendation before creating a new backup task would be to change your backup drive letter to one from later in the alphabet using Windows Disk Management. Give the drive a letter that is unlikely to be taken by any other USB device (memory sticks etc), such as S: or T: etc. Windows will remember the new drive letter for the backup drive and give it back each it is connected.
After that, I'd go into the backup task and re-pick the source and destination and see if it then runs successfully or not. If nothing else is wrong, it should... and should continue to backup as long as the source and destination remain the same (no swapping out an external hard drive with another one - even if using the same drive letter, and don't let Windows change the drive letter on you... formatting, partitioning, decrypting/encrypting a drive, and/or "upgrading" windows 10 are all reasons that a drive may not show up to Acronis as the original drive that was selected in a backup task... in addition to drive letters being changed in Windows)
This explains the Windows drive letter changing issue pretty well and also shows how to manually change it to something else to avoid Windows from doing this to you again. http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-change-the-drive-letter-in-windows-xp-for-an-external-usb-stick-or-hard-drive/
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