Acronis created folders from a drive not even hooked up?!?
OS: WIN10(refreshed new couple days ago)
ATI: 11530
Cleaning up someone's laptop so i took the drive out and tried to back it up to my D: drive. In order to do this i had to shut down my PC and take out my E: drive which i have a bunch of personal folders and some TIB's.
I first used Acronis on a USB stick and it not move data over so then I tried optical and that also did nothing so then I ran it from the desktop software. Also no go. So then i went to manually copy files over. To my surprise i found 5 folders on the laptop's main directory which had the same names of 5 folders of the E: drive I had taken out earlier. All had creation dates from roughly the same time i used the desktop software.
WTH!
At the moment i only see these 5 folders created and there's nothing in them. Counting my self lucky I backed up the laptops user folders to a USB stick a couple of days before but what happened tonight is truly messed up.
Ideas?


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Steve, I believe you explanation is likely to be correct. Some time ago I had something similar happen - I added a new 4 port SATA 3 PCIe card and at the same time added a new HDD, and I temporarily disconnected the drive to which internal backups were being made and Acronis started backing up to the new HDD (an identical WD 3TB Blue).
Ian
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In risposta a One of the clues here is… di truwrikodrorow…

" When those folders weren't found on the current E: drive, ATI created them ready for you to run your backup tasks. "
Well that's not dangerous at all now is it. That is beyond scary.
My reply is a couple months late because I've moved to another program. Can not be having this ship done without my permission.
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Frosty, the only things created are folders and possibly a backup image file if you run a backup task in this circumstance, so whilst that may be an annoyance, it is hardly dangerous or scary (my own opinion only!). I wish you all the best with using your alternative program solution - that is always the choice for any user to find that which works best. I have several alternative backup products that I am able to use should the need arise.
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