Hi folks. i downloaded acronis true image on a 30-day trial period,and did a clone of my hard drive,now when i check the drives in my computer my external hardrive does not show, can anybody please help as i had a lot of programs and files stored which i can not access, any suggestions would be appreciated, i had WD-500gb external drive with over 300gb of free space,PC is windows vista premium 32-bit thank you, patch41
pc doesn't recognize external drive after doing acronis clone
- Thread starter patch41
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Is it showing up in Disk Management ? ?
Right clik My Computer...select Manage ...then Disk Management.
Right clik My Computer...select Manage ...then Disk Management.
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Intel Q6600
- Motherboard
- ASUS P5K MBoard.
- Memory
- 4G OCZ PC2 8500 Platinum
- Graphics card(s)
- EVGA 8800GTS Vid Card
- Hard Drives
- 500G Seagate SATA 200G Seagate SATA 100G WD Caviar SATA 80G WD Caviar IDE
- PSU
- OCZ Elite 800W PSU
- Case
- RaidMax Smilodon Case
- Other Info
- Lite-On dual layer DVD burner X 2 Dos 6.2;Win2K;XP; & Vista Ultimate 64Bit.
It might just be missing a drive letter.
Give it a drive letter in Disk Management
Give it a drive letter in Disk Management
My Computers
System One System Two
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- Operating System
- Vista
- CPU
- Intel E8400
- Motherboard
- ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
- Memory
- 4gb DDR2 800
- Graphics card(s)
- nvidia 9500GT 1gb
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- Operating System
- win7/vista
- CPU
- intel i5-8400
- Motherboard
- gigabyte b365m ds3h
- Memory
- ballistix 2x8gb 3200
thanks for replying patio, yes it did show up in disc management, i really dont know what i did but i finally got the computer to regognize it, but it was wiped clean so the first thing i did was get rid of acronis true image but again thanks for your reply...patch41