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Drive letters changing when recover backing up

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I am trying to recover to a new disk; but drive letters are changing from C to G, etc. My backup source drive is now C (used to be Z). How can I prevent other drives to claim Z during the restore? I am using the Acronis recover console. Thanks

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Christer,

The drive letters once the image is restored should be back to normal. The reason the letters are different when in the recovery environment is because that uses Linux and Linux allocates partition and drive letters differently to Windows.

To avoid confusion it is recommended to give all your partitions names (labels in Microsoft speak), these don't alter when using Linux and so it is much easier to track what is what.

If the drive letters in Windows are changing this might be due to having the external drive connected after rebooting especially if you are cloning instead of imaging.

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