Acronis TI Restore disaster-Help

My HD is divided into 4 partitions C Programmes D Spare E Own Data F backup
on my Desktop
I decided to do a trial restore form my Laptop
I was restoring Own data to Spare D which it appeared to do. I now find that
the configuration has changed as follows
C Programmes OK D has disappeared, E has become G and is OK F Backup has now
no data.
When I checked with ACI I find that D is still there and contains the exact
amount of data I would expect
When I look at Windows Explorer there is no D
How can I recover from this disaster?

 

Go into Disk Management (right click My Computer, select Management, Disk Management) and see if you need to reassign drive letters or if you restore data to the wrong drive.

As a rule, you should give names to your hard disks and partitons because depending on ewhat you boot with, the drive letter assignments might not be the same -- i.e., you can't trust drive letters as a disk identifier across operating systems.

 

Many thanks for your help.
I have managed to recover the missing partition by renaming it and also to allocate the origional letters to the other partitions which were wrong apart from one which refuses to change. I have tried using ATI and also Partition Commander and the Disk management to no avail however I am more or less back where I stsretd and can cope with that.

 

If your system drive changes drive letters, that requires something different.
Al the other drives can be changed.

You may need to remove the drive letter from all but C. Shutdown and reboot. Then, you should be able to assign your drive letters sequentially as you prefer.

 

Further information. I used the disk management to attempt to change the one drive letter and I received a warning that it might cause the programme to no longer run.
So I am fearful of any change
With your suggestion is it essential to delete all apart from C or can I only delete the one which is wrong?
Should I proceed with the Disk management change or use your suggestion?

 

Follow Grover's tip. The warning about program's not working is because some progs set up to expect certain files on cenrtain paths and if the drive letters are changed, then the progs can get lost. YOur prob is that the drive leetters are already changed and you are putting them back in order. So you can ignore themessage.