Drive Letters

[starsfan09]

Been testing Acronis for awhile now, and have been happy with it. I'm gonna purchase it soon.
I've noticed something though, that is interesting.

I turn on the USB External HD, put the "Boot-Up" CD in the Rom, ..and then Re-boot the computer. It goes through the usual routine of loading the Boot Menu screen. When I click on "Recovery", and verify where the TI Image is...I've noticed all the drive letters are messed up. My External HD that usually shows as F:/ ...shows up as D:/ Drive. And of course my DVD Rom and DVD Burner show up as something else as well.

If I leave the USB External HD OFF while loading the Boot CD.... the drive letters are listed correctly. But then I can't load the TI Image from the External HD because it doesn't recognize the USB External is turned on.
In other words, I think you must have the External HD on ...before you actually load the Recovery screen from the Boot Up CD ....so it can be picked up or recognized.

[GroverH]

The recovery CD using Linux and the drive naming is not the same as Windows.
Check my signature link about unique drive letters.

It makes sense that the external must be connected and live since the bootup must recognize it during the search for hardware.

It's a good practice to boot from the CD and do backups to the external. Then you know the external will be recognized--when the time comes and you need to do a restore.

[starsfan09]

-{ Quote: "The recovery CD using Linux and the drive naming is not the same as Windows.
Check my signature link about unique drive letters.
" }-
I only use Windows XP Pro SP2. Nothing else. I'm sure there is a way to assign the drive letters in Pro. I just can't remember where. But whether or not I assign them in XP, ...Acronis will still mix them up... won't it?:-\

[TheWeaz]

“I only use Windows XP Pro SP2. Nothing else.”
This is not true if you boot from the Recovery CD. The Recovery CD is Linux; it does not matter what your usual OS is. You are in a Linux environment.

“I'm sure there is a way to assign the drive letters in Pro”
Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management.

[seekforever]

-{ Quote: "I only use Windows XP Pro SP2. Nothing else. I'm sure there is a way to assign the drive letters in Pro. I just can't remember where. But whether or not I assign them in XP, ...Acronis will still mix them up... won't it?:-\" }-

You can do it in XP in Control Panel Administrative Tools Disk Management or something like that.

The fact of life is that the Linux environment uses a different method for assigning drive letters. Most people give meaningful volume labels to their disks so the drive letters are not required to identify which partition is which. I do the same thing in XP on my home network, I've given up juggling drive letters just to keep them the same on each machine.

[Acronis Support]

Hello starsfan09,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

As it was said above, if you restore from Acronis bootable rescue CD (it contains a Linux kernel), Acronis Bootable Rescue Media (full version) can display drive letters different from those you see in Windows because Linux has its own rules of drive naming. This is absolutely normal and there is no need to worry about the difference in drive letters assignment.

For more information, please refer to the Malta Linux Users Group article here:
http://linux.org.mt/article/partnames

You can find more information on how to use Acronis True Image 9.0 Home in the respective User's Guide (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/).

Please visit Acronis online store (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/sales/online/) to purchase Acronis True Image 9.0 Home.

Thank you.
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Tatyana Tsyngaeva