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Drive letters/numbers keep changing
I'm running Win 10 Pro.
I have two hard drives in my PC, both are exactly the same - I use Acronis TrueImage to regularly clone one drive to another as a backup. I've done this for a long time on my old PC running Win 7 64-Bit but have recently bought another PC (spec'd by myself) that's running Win 10 Pro.
I should say that this doesn't affect the booting of the PC, it always boots the correct drive with the most current data, it's just that if I go into Disk Management the PC sometimes states that drive 0 has letter D assigned to it and drive 1 has letter C assigned.
What SHOULD be the case is that drive 0 is always C and drive 1 is always D. The only way that I can revert it to this order is by messing around in the BIOS and often swapping the SATA cables around.
I should re-stress that the PC still always boots to the correct drive with the most recent data (I can tell by the contents), it's just the numbering/letters that get swapped around.
I suspect that Windows updates (any updates) and subsequent reboots are causing the problem.
How can how set things so that drive 0 is always C and drive 1 is always D?
Part of the reason that I want to do this is because when I clone the drives I like to clone low to high, so drive 0 overwrites drive 1 - with the swapped letters/numbers I may one day, by accident, clone OLD data over NEW data .........
My PC has an ASUS Prime B350-Plus motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB video card, 2 x 2TB hard drives, 8GBytes RAM, DVD/Blu-ray drive