External HD letters
I have a cradle which accepts different WD 500GB hard disks which I rotate when full. The trouble is when one gets changed Win7 gives the cradle (Ext HD) a different drive letter. This means Acronis cannot find the replaced removable disk. Frustratingly it sometimes works (but not reliably) as I chose letters at the end of the alphabet which are less likely to get changed by Win7.
My question is can I fix the drive letter for the external hard disk cradle? Or can I name an individual removable media disk and tell acronis about it?
Thanks for any help
Richard
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Windows is assigning a drive letter to the drive that's in the cradle rather than to the cradle itself. You will need to reboot whenever you swap drives and each swappable drive should have its own unique drive letter, rather than both being Z or whatever. It is always sound practice to give drives or partitions names rather than relying on drive letters to identify them. You will already have noticed that when booted to the rescue media your drives show different drive letters from those in Windows but any names remain the same.
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was Earthling wrote:Windows is assigning a drive letter to the drive that's in the cradle rather than to the cradle itself.
Correct. That is normal Windows behaviour.
You should assign each drive a permanent, fixed drive letter high in the alphabet, as well as a unique name. Create a separate backup task for each drive.
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Thanks everyone
Making separate backup tasks for each WD (already named WD1 & WD2) I still need to predict the drive letter so True Image can work. I will try and remember to reboot when I swap the disk in the cradle and hope the "T:\" is left unchanged.
Ideally what I would like is Windows to assign a given letter to a specific named disk.
Richard
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Richard Adams wrote:I still need to predict the drive letter so True Image can work. I will try and remember to reboot when I swap the disk in the cradle and hope the "T:\" is left unchanged.Ideally what I would like is Windows to assign a given letter to a specific named disk.
If you'd read my reply, you'd see that I provided a solution to that.
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