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2 disks, recover to 'other'

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I have 3 hard disks in this system, 1 is only data. 1 is a windows disk (w7 32-bit) and the 3rd is w7 64 bit.

I have backups of the two system drives on an external (eSATA) disk.

The trouble is: w7-64 has crashed (no surprise) and I would like to recover it. I can only run w7-32 bit O/S and as it boots, the drive letters are all shuffled around (not a problem for me because I can identify them - they are named for that reason). But it is a problem for Acronis (I think) because if I click recover (on the image for w7-64) it is going to recover it right over w7-32.

Not the end of the world, but certainly the end for that installation.

Perhaps I could have planned this better, like having a version of windows bootable on the external drive. That way I could plug in the target hard drive on the internal SATA and it would be identified as C: and D: as it was when I backed up.

DO I need to do something like that - or can I force recovery to different drive letter/paths than the backup as it was done?

Clear as mud?

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richyankee,

You can recover a disk and partition backup on any disk that you want (provided it fits).

Do the recovery from the recovery CD, not from ATI in Windows.

Note: when you are using the disk, you are using a Linux version of ATI. THat UI will show you disk letter that are different from Windows when you navigate to find your backup, or when you designate the target disk. Look at disk labels, not letters. When ATI shows you the content of what to backup, the content will have the right disk letters though.
The point is, don't worry about unusual drive letters. Boot the computer on the recovery CD, navigate to your backup, select the entire disk to restore, select the destination, and do the restore.