Drive letters/numbers keep changing

CountMike said:

You can paste the picture in your post. Stil waiting for Pfotobucket to load it.

Edited post and pasted image into it. :)

cereberus said:

Why are you cloning anyway?

This is a very inefficient use of disk space and decidedly unflexible.

It makes far more sense to create image backups, and then you can have backups at different stages so you can revert to an earlier version if unexpected issues arise.

Not only that, it is a good idea to periodically backup images to an external drive. It has been known for a pc failure to fry both disks, and also for hackers to "ransom" online drives.


Making a single clone to an internal drive does not give you adequate data backup integrity.

You make some good points, I prefer to clone as if one drive fails I can simply boot from the clone and continue to use the PC. Well, that's the theory anyway.

Well, it's done it again - after another reboot the drive numbers/letters have swapped over ...........

Any other ideas please how to stop this happening?

It's definitely booted to the correct drive. I'll rename the drives as you suggest but I guess that's not going to stop it getting confused on boot?

It will only unconfuse me until I clone the drive or reboot the PC again. :)