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I have attempted to recovery a tibx backup several times.  At first it appeared there was a drive letter problem. I then set all drive letters to what was indicated. I could get the Recovery panel to display and seelct the respective (external) HDDs.  When I clicked on RESTORE the panel would change to BACKUP and the selected drives changed.  See pics.

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J A, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

What are you recovering here in terms of the .tibx backup you are selecting? 
Is this a backup of an internal disk containing Windows or of a data disk?

When you mention the respective external HDD's, are both the backup image and the target destination on these external drives?

If, as it looks in your images, you are doing the recovery from within Windows, then it is 'normal' for the Recovery to change to show Backup as the steps are followed, as confusing as this is to users!

If the backup is of a Windows OS disk, then it is recommended to perform the recovery by booting from the Acronis Rescue Media and with the target drive installed in place of the current OS disk.

Note: if the recovery in Windows detects a Windows OS on the target external drive, then it may still require a restart of Windows to continue the process!  You can avoid this by 'wiping' the target drive before starting, i.e. use the Acronis > Tools > Add new disk option to initialise the target drive and leave it showing as 'Unallocated space'.

See KB 65508: Acronis True Image 2021: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 65539: Acronis True Image 2021: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

This new version and control panel of Acronis has been very confusing.

I have the tibx backup on an external HDD (Western Digital 2TB) and I did the backup from my PC internal HDD. (BTW, this is ATI for Western Digital, if that makes any difference.) My PC HDD does not have the capacity to receive the size of the backup now, so I want to recover it to another external HDD (WD 1TB).  That is what is seen in the two different images. I selected the external 1TB HDD. Then ATI switches from that to backup mode between the 2TB HDD and my PC HDD.  I stop the unwanted 'backup' at that point to prevent currupting my original backup. Now my 1TB HDD is left with unallocated sectors and I have to go to disk management, do a New Simple Disk and then Reformat the 1TB HDD. What's going on?

I selected the external 1TB HDD. Then ATI switches from that to backup mode between the 2TB HDD and my PC HDD.  I stop the unwanted 'backup' at that point to prevent currupting my original backup. Now my 1TB HDD is left with unallocated sectors and I have to go to disk management, do a New Simple Disk and then Reformat the 1TB HDD. What's going on?

As stated above, it is 'normal' that ATI switches from Recovery to showing Backup but it is not running an unwanted backup operation.  It is a peculiarity of how ATI works that it does this!

If you want to 100% certain that only the correct drives are being touched when doing any operation with ATI, then disconnect any drives not involved and boot the PC from the Acronis Rescue Media so that you only have the drive holding the backup image and the target drive for the operation present.

When doing a recovery, the target drive will be wiped as the first action of the recovery in order to recreate the partition structures from the backup image.