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Recovery CD does not find external hard drive

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Created Recovery CD using Simple method. Recovery process does not find external hard drive where backups are located. P.S. Sorry if this problem has previously been addressed but the search function in this forum is not functioning. The Key word simply disappears when entered.

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Mustang, how is your external hard drive connected to your computer?

When booting from the Recovery CD that you created, does it show a Windows logo while it is booting?

The Simple method of creating the Recovery CD can fall through to creating Linux based media if the Windows Recovery Environment is not detected or does not have the correct files present.

See KB 60091: Acronis True Image 2018: how Simple bootable media creation mode works

Another possibility is that the recovery media does not have a driver for the USB port; this would mostly happen with the Linux recovery media. The early build of Linux Recovery media for ATI 2018 had numerous driver issues that were fixed in later builds, so check the build you are using is the most recent one.