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Windows keeps changing the order of my hard disks
About 6 months ago I rebuilt my system which now has
INTERNALLY
128GB Corsair SSD = C Drive plus unlettered boot partition
2TB Samsung drive split into two partitions which is storage and truecrypt area (the first partition is my data drive)
2TB Samsung drive (media and films)
250GB western digital which is my system back up drive for main and incremental backups
EXTERNALLY (permenantly connecte)
3TB Go Flex drive which is my data back up
2GB flash drive for a specific programme that runs from it
I use Paraagon Back up and recovery 10.2 (free edition)
with a system drive back up and alternat daily incremental back ups scheduled
After a few days of running the back ups successfully I wake up to find an invalid partition messag. Which I eventually traced back to the SSD drive (still happily working as boot and system disk) which in Disc Mananger (win 7 pro) had changed drive number at the last reboot. For some reason it was showing as drive 2 but had changed back to drive 0 as I would expect it to be. So ran a new back up, set new scheduled incremental and again this ran fine for 3 back ups - until I had occasion to turn my PC off. The next time the back up ran I got the same error message and found the drive had switched back to being drive 2 again.
I have not done anything (other than reboot) that should change this
The discs show in the right order in the BIOS and are set in the right boot sequence as well CDROM/SDD/HDD
The SSD is the master on SATA port 2 one of the 2TB is slave on the same port
the other two hard drives are master and slave on SATA port 3 - they were simply connceted to the most accessible ports but I made sure the SSD was first in the sequence. zero is used up by the IDE Optical drives (master and slave) and both ports 1 are empty
I am fanatical about backing up and so concerned about it failing like this. There has been previous thread but was nearly a year old so it reccommended a new one.
It is a gigabyte motherboard (fairly new) with an AMD dual core processor (the other article reccommended an intel specific fix so didnt help)
any ideas as how I can FIX the drive numbers - I really dont care if it is showing as 0 or 2 just as long as it always stays the same