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Trying to backup system : Acronis 2011 is muddling up C and D drives / reserved partition

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I'm using the latest version (2011) Boot CD to backup my Dell 9400 Windows 7 64 laptop installation from an SSD to another SSD.

The laptop has a 100MB system reserved partition, and then the main C Drive partition of 119 GB with all the OS and files on it.

When I get to the Acronis backup screen for some reason it mistakenly labels the reserved 100 MB partition as 'C' and the main unlabeled partition of 119 GB as 'D'. This is WRONG!

If I restore the new system drive to the other SSD then windows will not load because Acronis has decided that the 100MB file should be C.

How do I change the drive names? Ie tell acronis that C should be the main large partition, while the small 100 MB partition should not be labeled C.

This is a glaring error and I'm hoping you can help me fix it. Thanks

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Hi,

The problem here is that Linux (which is the CD OS environment) assigns drive letters differently to MS Windows.

The only thing you can do to prevent confusion is to ensure you give all your Windows partitions lables (the 100Mb already has a label 'System').

The only other option if you want exactly the same partition layout is to either make a BartPE rescue disk or using the Plus Pack a WIN PE Cd as these are Windows environments.

This is something Acronis should have dealt with. Not enough testing of their product. It is what they are selling.... imaging up Windows 7. They flubbed the drive assignment issue.

jt7747 and IPayForItToWork:

Ignore the drive letters while backing up and restoring. Drive letters are not unique identifiers of a partition. They are assigned by an operating system following some set of rules. Boot your PC from a Windows 7 DVD and take a look at how it assigns drive letters. You won't see the same result that you see when running Windows 7. From the DVD, the System Reserved partition will be called C: and the main Windows partition will be called D:.

If you install a second copy of Windows 7 on your disk, you can assign any drive letter that you wish to the first Windows partition when viewed by the Second Windows OS. First Windows may call it C: but Second Windows can call it anything. In fact, Second Windows will call its OS partition C: and First Windows will call it something else.

Like Colin said, don't go by drive letters when you're running some other OS, including the Acronis boot CD. Identify your partitions by size or name.