unwanted letterswitch
I installed a much bigger HD in my pc and thought this to be the moment to reserve a secure zone on this disk for my backups.
Up till then I used herefor a subdirectory freely available in windows explorer.
Normally I backup my C: partition (System) and a L: partition (with many programs).
When I want to restore both partitions from the secure zone there is no problem to do so with C: ,but TrueImage decided to change the letter of the other partition from L to F. No way to change this.
From the past I remember that allowing such a switch results in enormous troubles.
My question is : if I allow my partition to be restored as F: is it then possible afterwards to change the letter back to L again ? And what happens during startup of windows while various programs are starting up the same time as windows and all of them have L: as location in the register.
If I don't use a secure zone and restore from my HD intern or extern there are no letter switches !
Thanks for any help in this matter.

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Thank you, bodgy, for your reaction. The point however is that in this case I have to restore under a letter I do not want and thereafter after a lot of trouble ( because the pc is restarted under this wrong letter) I must hope that changing the letter back ( if that works ) will repair the mess.
For reasons that not using the SZ runs smoothly I think I can better use this SZ exclusively for Try and Decide features ??
By the way: I have xp-sp3 and have available disk manager if needed.
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Skip the SZ and due your backups to an external disk--that's much safe and simplfies things greatly in lots of ways.
Windows assigns drive letters as it darn well pleases. Another OS, might do it differently, the ATI bootCD, which uses linux, usually does. They don't always find the same hdisks and partitions in the same order but assign C to the first one they find. So in Win a partition might be called c: but from the BootCD it's called D:, etc. If the image is from C:, then when restored to a hdisk inthe same physical location/connection, that disk should boot up as C: (notwithstanding any other hdisk changes youy make in the interim.)
As Bodgy points out, you can override Window's alphabetic proclivities and change around the drive letters. Only rules ares you cannot assigne a drive letter that is already in use and chaning the drive letter of a sys drive requires a reboot.
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OK thanks for all comments. I skipped indeed the SZ and basically store on an external HD. When trying to restore fortunately C: is not changed whereas my L: partition keeps changing the letter. It keeps only the original L: if I copie this image to the intern HD.
Because C: is always unchanged and the PC is starting up somehow I am able to change the other letter back to L:
So in a way my problem is solved although I would have preferred TI to behave differently.
Thanks again
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