TI 2010 - Incorrect Drive Letters

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SYSTEM:
HP Pavilion p6157c
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
7GB RAM
750GB SATA hard drive

I have a 750GB SATA hard drive that I partitioned into two drives: C:\ is the main operating system, and D:\ (labeled as "Backup") is my "backup" drive, where I store all backup items. When I boot to the Acronis True Image Home 2010 CD to create a backup image of the C:\ drive, Acronis reports incorrect drive letters: It shows the C:\ drive as D:\, and the D:\ drive as C:\.

This causes a TREMENDOUS problem if you have to "restore" the created image of the partition. When you attempt to restore the image file, you get an error that the "BOOTMGR is missing", because the PC's boot disk got bumped out of wack from the incorrect drive letters. As a result, you have to use the Vista DVD to do a repair of the operating system and the boot files...not cool.

Is there a solution to this to get Truge Image 2010 to show the CORRECT drive letters?

mer 20/01/2010 - 11:35
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When you run the Full Mode version of TI from the CD, it's running Linux. Drive letters are not used -- TI just assigns them to the partitions. Even if you ran TI from BartPE, VistaPE, etc., the drive letter assignments may come out differently. This is completely normal.

Don't go by the drive letters. Go by the partitions. Give them meaningful names (labels), know the sizes, etc.

Assuming TI works correctly on the computer, there's not going to be problems caused by backing up "C: (Vista) 100GB" using TI in Windows and then restoring it to "D: (Vista) 100GB" use the Full Mode version of TI from the CD. It's the same partition.

mer 20/01/2010 - 17:29