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Windows 7 and drive letters

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I am running Windows 7 64 bit on my Laptop and using True Image Home 2010 Build 7046. It seems with Windows 7 the "tib" file cannot be viewed with Windows Explorer as I had done with
XP and Vista. Also with Windows 7 when making a Disk backup it lists System (C:) and Drive C (D:). Note that "Drive C" is the label on my drive. "System" does not appear in Windows Explorer.
I am new to Windows 7 and am not sure how the changes impact True Image. I was comfortable in being able to easily view the list of files by using Explorer. These problems make me lose some confidence in True Image.

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I'm running Win 7 32bit and I can right click on the TIB file and Select Open with and one of the choices is Windows Explorer. Once the archive is open double click on the drive icon to explore.
Are you using the bootable recovery disk when you make a backup? The Linux environment may not label the disks the same as windows. I have actually given all my drives labels using Windows explorer. See the attached pciture.

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As thomasjk has indicated. Having names on your drive is an "absolute must". I even take it one step further and include the correct drive letter as part of the drive volume name.

Sata--P1_C
or
750-1_D
or
Backups_F

the point is to assign a name of which you can identify the drive no regardless of what drive letter is assigned by a recovery program.

With win 7 64-bit here, in Windows Explorer I can simply double click on the .tib file and it opens up just as if it was a folder. I'm using ver 2010 build 5055 of True Image.

I am using the bootable version and will attach a shot of the screen. The "System" partition is nor visible in Wuindows.

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Your normal drive C is listed on line 2 and is labelled as (Drive C) and it also is the largest partition with 41GB of used space and overall size of 284GB.

All the partitions are listed but TrueImage has assigned different letters. This is why all of the prior posts have suggested that you name your partitions and I suggested you include the normal drive letter as part of the name.

It is also possible that TrueImage has assigned drive letters to each partition and Windows may not have assigned drive letters.
The assignment by TrueImage is to help trueimage keep track of everything. You keep track by your description and everybody is happy.

When a restore is made, Windows will sort it all out and not assign any new drive letters.

I am running Windows 7 64 bit on my Dell desktop computer. When I installed Acronis True Image 2009 the media card reader drive letters disappeared from the device manager and the media card reader could not identify pictures on the memory stick that was placed in the media card reader.

Has anyone else experienced the disappearance of the portable drive letters in their device manager after installing or re-installing Acronis True Image 2009 version ? currently, I cannot install this software on my computer without it rendering my media card reader inoperative.

Have you looked inside the Device Manager to see thier status there.

Version 2009 does not support Windows 7.

I have viewed the portable device status and currently all the drive letters for the media writer are present. this is due to the fact that Acronis True Image 2009 is not currently installed.

So you are saying that Windows 7 is not compatable with the Acronis 2009 True Image software ? Do you know if there's a patch available for download that would make it compatable with Windows 7 ?
Thanks.

David,

The first version that supports Win 7 is 2010.

This problem is known and has existed on and off for many versions. It's usually caused by a bad or incorrect version of the snapman driver being used. As already stated, TI 2009 is not compatible with Windows 7 and it's not recommened to use it in Windows 7.

In TI 2009, I think build 9615 was the first one to fix this problem.