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Acronis True Image 2014 not recognizing my external USB Drive...

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I have Acronis True Image 2014 and I was able to create an Image file of the hard drive in my USB External Drive Caddy. Now after reloading my machine and reloading Acronis 2014, the program does not see the external USB drive. I was using ATI2012 with the upgrade to 2014 applied, it worked great. This is important to me because I use it to image drives before wiping and reloading other machine. Which I do on a regular basis. I seen a post earlier and a tech asked if the drive was seen after booting from the recovery CD. He had closed the ticket before the user had replied. Well, I cannot get the program to see the external drive caddy, which is USB. It does see it however when booting from the recover CD. However, this does not work for me...I need this program to function as it should. I have installed the SnapAPI thinking it had something to do with it, but no such luck. Here is a desription of my machine.

Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz 5.9 3.5
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.9
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series 3.5
Gaming graphics 2270 MB Total available graphics memory 5.3
Primary hard disk 405GB Free (466GB Total) 5.9
Windows 7 Ultimate

System
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Manufacturer Dell Inc.
Model OptiPlex 745
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 2329 GB
Disk partition (C:) 405 GB Free (466 GB Total)
Disk partition (D:) 525 GB Free (932 GB Total)
Media drive (E:) CD/DVD
Media drive (F:) CD/DVD
Disk partition (M:) 171 GB Free (932 GB Total) <--- This is my external USB drive

Graphics
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Display adapter type ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series
Total available graphics memory 2270 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1758 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.970.100.1100
Primary monitor resolution 1280x1024
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller

Notes
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The gaming graphics score is based on the primary graphics adapter. If this system has linked or multiple graphics adapters, some software applications may see additional performance benefits.

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Scott,
Try attaching using a usb2 connector or usb2 cable just to see if it can be seen this way.

Are there any errors shown in device manager? You say I think that you re-imaged your hard drive, assuming that drive is your primary OS drive, was this done with a recent backup? I suspect a driver issue. Do you have other attached USB devices attached to your machine that function normally? You might wish to try unplugging all attached devices, shutdown Windows, restart and plug back in devices one at a time, your problem hard drive first, and see if Windows will reload the driver for it. If you find an error showing in Device Manager you can right click on it and choose properties, then update driver and have Windows search for it.