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Bought a new hard drive connected to computer via blackx. Do I have to format this drive before acronis will recognize the drive?

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Yes, you would need to format and assign a drive letter. If you are planning on using this disk for backup purposes you should assign a drive letter high in the letter chain (X,Y,Z) so that the drive letter remains constant and will not inadvertently change to a different letter.

I went ahead before your response. The only thing that I didn't do was have a xyz letter. Can the letter be changed? Thanks

Yes, using Windows disk manager you can right click on the drive and from the context menu choose Assign drive letter or path. If you have already written data to this drive using an application make sure that you can still access that data from whatever app you used to create it before change the drive letter.