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How to restore from an External Drive

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Acronis 2016 is installed and running.  My external hard drive is connected with a separate backup of C & D drives.  I want to restore my D drive.  The drive shows the combination of both GB and the destination drive is correct.  The next is set to “Backup Now”.

Since it does not say “Restore”, I am not sure what is going to happen next.

How will it find the correct backup to restore if I cannot get the correct D file to be shown as the item to restore?

If I use my startup disk, it would work if I could get it to SEE my external drive.  Is this possible?

I just want to restore my D drive to my desktop from the external drive.  How can I do this?

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Did you click on the "recover disks"... Then, you should see D:\ in what to restore if D: is effectively included in the backup.

BTW, to check if D:] is in the backup, simply double click on the TIB file that the backup task has created. You should see D:\ there. You can also copy/paste scecific files and folders from there to your desktop.

Note that if you have system or program folders on D:, you should boot the computer on thre Acronis recovery/rescue disk/USB, then perform the restore from there.

In the lower left of screenshot is "recover disks".  That's where you'd go from within the GUI.

As Pat mentioned though, since you just want to recover the data to your desktop, you could simply navigate to the backup .tib file in Windows Explorer, double click on it and it should open up the contents of the backup.  Then just copy and paste out of it.  This works great for DATA, but not if you have applications tied to these files since it would not restore specific settings or registry keys that would be needed to make them useable.  As for raw data though (pictures, photos, documents, files, etc - works great).