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I have a drive image made in Acronis of an XP machine. The original computer has a C:/ drive, an E:/ partition, and a CD drive on D:/. When I restore from the backup, the E and D drive letters are switched. How can I prevent this from happening?

I suspect it has to do with the MBR, but beyond that I'm lost.

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  • I think it has something to do with the fact that the second partition will be detected before the CD drive, so therefore gets priority with the Drive letter. Sep 26, 2012 at 2:22
  • I neglected to mention that it had been working previously for quite a long time. Something happened to change it.
    – David
    Sep 26, 2012 at 3:04

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If you run diskpart, you can probably use

list volume
select volume N
assign letter=E

(where N is the number of your partition you want to be E:, found via the output of list volume)

Since the hard drive volumes get priority over the CD drive, as you suppose, this'll cause C: and E: to be allocated, so the CD drive gets D:.

Good luck!

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    Only had the opportunity to test it right now. I ended up setting the CD drive to F. Thank you.
    – David
    Sep 27, 2012 at 14:23

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