Backups on external drive not found, because drive letter changed
(This annoying bug was already there in TrueImage 2009)
I have an external USB disk with a unique label that I use for backups in Windows 7. Unfortunately the drive letter Windows assigns depends on other USB drives: If I plug in a memory stick before the disk, the disk will get a different drive letter compared to the situation when the disk is plugged in first.
Unfortunately ATIH (Acronis TrueImage Home) cannot handle the situation and complains it cannot find the registered backup files.
There is software around that is much smarter locating a specific filesystem (don't they all have a unique volume ID (NTFS at least)?)
Please fix this problem!


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A much better requirement than trying to assign fixed drive letters (I think drive letters are declared obsolete since Windows Vista anyway) would be to assign unique volume labels (default is "VOLUME") to the filesystems on the drive. Then Acronis could locate the filesystems by volume label. Actually I did this for the backup disk, and so I can easily locate the backup disk in "Computer" (looking for the name, not for the letter). I guess you know that in recent Linux changeable devices are mounted by their volume name (if present) or filesystem serial number. So there each filesystem on an external device will have a persistent name. Before that the devices were named in order of plugging them in.
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Ulrich Windl wrote:I think drive letters are declared obsolete since Windows Vista anyway)
This is incorrect. Where do you get your faulty information?
As you'd see by browsing this forum, we always recommend that users assign volume names to each drive and partition so that they can recognize each one even when drive letters change.
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