TeraByte Support wrote:
> You're only restoring the single partition c:? what were all the other
> drives when you backed it up originally? Also, you're not choosing options
> to change the disk signature I presume?
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>
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> "Radish" wrote in message news:
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> OS = Win 7 Pro. x64
> IFW v3.06
> IFL v3.06
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> I have a recurring problem when I restore the boot partition (C:) from an
> image file. When I create an image file of the boot partition the order of
>
> all the partitions are labelled (by me) as the order in which they
> physically exist on the HD. So the order is:
>
> C:, D:, E:, F:, G: and H:
>
> When I restore the boot partition from the image file and then boot into
> the
> system the order of the partition labels is like this:
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> C:, G:, H:, D:, E: and F:
>
> See, they are all re-arranged and only C: is the same as it was relative to
>
> the system when it was imaged. What this means is that every time I do
> restore I have to manually re-label the partitions into the order I prefer
>
> i.e. into the order of the physical partitions on the HD.
>
> So my question is: Is there some setting I can make to force the partition
>
> labels to be the same as they were when the image was created?
>
> P.S. Though I am on a Windows system I use the IFL (GUI) boot disk to do
> restores as I prefer it over the IFD (GUI). I would suspect that doing so
> makes no difference to this partition labelling issue. I should add that
> I'm
> not suggesting this is an issue with v3.06 - the same sort of thing was
> happening when I was using IFW v2.x.
Yes, I'm only restoring the single partition C: - that is all I ever do with IFL. I backup my data partitions using other software.
All drives/partitions on HD1 and HD2 are set by me to be in the following order with their labels\letters to match the same order as the partitions physically exist on the HDs:
C: - Primary (boot partition)
D: - Primary (data partition)
E: - Primary (data partition)
F: - Logical "Drive" in Extended partition (data partition)
G: - Logical "Drive" in Extended partition (data partition)
H: - Logical "Drive" in Extended partition (data partition)
Please note that I image off C: partition on HD1. If I use that image to restore C: on HD1 I do not get the problem with partition/drive labels being re-assigned - the partition/drive labels on restore to HD1 are as were set when C: HD1 was imaged off.
I do get this problem when I use that image of C: partition HD1 to restore the C: partition on HD2. Then the partition/drive labels do get altered to an order that is not the same order as the partition order on HD1, nor the same as the partition order, as originally set by me, on HD2 (which Is set by me, in precisely the same partition/drive order as HD1). I hope that makes sense. What I'm trying to say is the both HDs are setup by me to be mirrors of each other. All partitions being labelled (originally by me) to match on both HDs.
No, I don't enable the change disk signature option when I do the restore the only thing I ever set is for the partition to be made "Active" everything else I leave alone - I don't understand most of the settings so I steer well clear of using them. The manual that comes with the TeraByte software is pretty good but, for me at my tech level, the options aren't explained clearly enough to allow me to use any of them with confidence that I know what I'm doing. But, definitely, I have never ever chosen the option to change the disk signature. (That said I think this might have been done on one occasion by IFL when I let it restore to HD2 using the "Automatic" option. Please see my post above for what happened when I made the mistake of doing that.)