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true image boot disk problems. second hard drive missing on my computer after restore

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hi guys hope you can help. here's the scenario. i have a toshiba laptop running windows vista home premium. this laptop has 2 hard drives i.e. C:\ and E:\. i did a full backup after a fresh install with administrator account active with the latest updates and various software i love using. the issue is, one day my computer crashed for some unknown reason. i used acronis to restore that image. everything restored perfectly but was amazed that my E:\ had disappeared. funny enough when i reinstalled using my vista recovery disk E:\ reappeared. The million dollar question is, am i backing up or restoring the wrong way. how can i backup and restore without losing my E:\ ? thanks in advance

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Hello cosmas moyo,

Thank you for your post. I will do my best to assist you.

We never had such issues reported before, that is why I would like to ask you for additional information so that I can have a more clear understanding of the issue.

1. Which version of Acronis software were you using?

2. When the E: drive disappeared, was it gone from "My computer" or you also checked the disk management window?

3. Is drive E: a second physical hard disk or a partition?

4. Was the data intact on the E: drive after the restore?

It can be, that either during backup you did not select the E: drive, but we can check this. If you still have your backup file, can you browse through it? Just double click on the .tib file and it will show you how many hard drives are in the image. The same can apply to recovery, but it is harder to check this.

I would really appreciate if you can answer all these questions so that we can continue assisting you.

If you need additional assistance or have any other questions, please let me know.

Thank you.

hi and thank you for you response. i will answer your questions chronologically

1) i am using the 2009 boot disk it's the home edition

2) e:\ was gone from my computer and in the disk management window

3) e:\ is a second physical drive and i've always kept it empty

4) e:\ did not appear at all after the restore...if i can recollect, i think i selected all drives and partiations when i was doing a full computer image backup, and the same when restoring i.e. selecting all drives partitions etc available.

your assistance will be greatly appreciated

Hello cosmas!

Thank you for the information provided. In this case we'd like to ask you to gather the following information: 

  1. Acronis Info from the problem machine
  2. Acronis Report from the problem machine
  3. If possible, perform the recovery again with obtaining recovery log (View Log -> Save all to file)

Send this information to us by contact support directly with the collected data attached. Keep in mind that should there be any procrastination with the reply, you can always specify us the case number. We will do our best to speed up the process.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you in advance for cooperation. We'll be waiting for news from you.

If you want to perform one restore and have both disks restored, then your backup must include both disk within the same backup.

Or, you can perform a backup of each disk separately and then restore each disk separately. Just be sure that your backup is where the entire disk is checked and not just drive C.

When restoring two disks in one pass, be sure that both disks are checked as being restored.

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