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Acronis reads other disks while performing incremental disk backup

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I have set up an incremental disk backup using TrueImage. It backs up both disks C: and D: to an external USB disk K: (I´m not running TrueImage continuous backup).
I have another external USB disk attached to my PC (disk F:), but TrueImage is not setup to backup either from or to F:. It only backs up C: and D: to K:. If I mount TureImage´s backup file, only C: and D: are there, as expected.
I realized that when I run the above incremental disk backup, disk F: is accessed very intensively. I launched the Windows Resource Monitor tool and was able to see that TrueImage was the process that was accessing disk F:.
In fact, I also use another continuous backup software, from other manufacturer (one backup is no backup...), and this other software backs up selected files to disk F:, and I saw that TrueImage was reading this other software´s backup storage.
If I detach disk F:, TrueImage continues its disk backup without any problem and faster than if drive F: was attached.

Just a bit of additional information: I´ve just realized that even after TrueImage has finished the disk backup task, it continues reading disk F: (I really don´t know what for...). It seems only stops accessing
F: after it has read all the files in the other software´s backup storage.

My question is why TrueImage is reading disk F: and how can I avoid TrueImage doing it whthout having to detach disk F:, so that the backup can run faster.

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True Image checks all disks that are attached to a PC at run time in case you need to either image or store an image on these disks. For example if you decided to make a new task to image a disk True Image is able to show you all your disks so you can select one, once you've selected your disk TI can immediately record the disk structure and genrla information without having to reread your system.

There is no way to stop this happening other than not have the disk attached or running.

What is the file format used by the other backup software? ZIP?