current Windows 10. I use Acronis true image and uses the drive letter to find backup drive. If I add another drive it may assigned a diffenent letter and then Acronis don't work. I need to assign that hard drive to the same letter permantly to avoid this problem. Thanks for any address you give me. Thanks for any advice can give me. Phillip J Materi.
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James Mason
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You can't permanently assign drive letters to removable drives. You'll have to see if acronis lets you set it up with hardware IDs or something. Windows Server Backup (requires Windows Server OS) lets you setup daily backups to different drives this way.
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hang_the_nine, once he boots a usb or dvd with portable Acronis, all bets that drive assignments will match Windows' drive assignments are off. Within Windows, if the usb device X is always attached to usb port 1, if a usb cd\dvd device is always attached to usb port 2 -- both detachable devices can be assigned permanent drive letters; I've been doing that for years. I was changing classes, hence the disconnect. In short: 1) Any usb device plugged into the same usb port every time can retain an assigned drive letter. 2) And, of course, any internal device will retain an assigned drive letter.
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That shouldn't matter. He'd only boot to portable acronis if he was restoring a backup, so drive letters don't mean anything there.
If it's a static hard drive, it's letter won't change, as windows will remember it's assigned drive letter.
Gentlemen, agreed! I was sidebarring that even if the end-user assigns drive letters within Windows to both internal and external devices, any usb or dvd boot will "scramble" the drive letters. Now that I'm in one classroom, I can offer this answer to the end-user:
Within Windows, within explorer.exe, assign each internal and external drive & device its own unique name. Those unique names will be picked up by Acronis and by any other backup/restore/clone program. With each drive/device uniquely named, end-user will always know which drive, which device, the program is being "aimed" at.
** Those unique names have made several restores possible - flawlessly, right source, right target, the first time, every time. **
Within Windows, within explorer.exe, assign each internal and external drive & device its own unique name. Those unique names will be picked up by Acronis and by any other backup/restore/clone program. With each drive/device uniquely named, end-user will always know which drive, which device, the program is being "aimed" at.
** Those unique names have made several restores possible - flawlessly, right source, right target, the first time, every time. **
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It's an internal drive, it will get a lower drive letter than any external one. And even if the drive letter changes, you just need to point the program to the other drive letter. Or edit the script file or whatever is being used.
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