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I use ATI 2021 to do weekly full backups to a 5TB external drive via USB 3. The backups include every option to be able to recover my 64bit Windows 10 Pro desktop. I set Uefi to this external drive and selected the latest backup to recover from, then hit Enter. I have many files taking up around 600GB.

The HDD LED got busy for a short while, then no LED activity since - and that's for 1.5 ours now. I don't see any progress bar showing how much has been recovered (I don't know what to expect since this is my first recovery using Acronis). Is this expected or is nothing happening?

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Tork, not sure exactly what you mean when you wrote:

I set Uefi to this external drive and selected the latest backup to recover from, then hit Enter. I have many files taking up around 600GB.

Is your external drive configured as an Acronis Survival Kit drive so that it is bootable as rescue media?

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

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

Yes it is.

"I set Uefi to this external drive and selected the latest backup to recover from, then hit Enter. I have many files taking up around 600GB."

In the UEFI selection at startup after turning on the computer, I moved the Seagate external drive to the first position which automatically means it would be selected for Windows startup rather than the usual Windows UEFI.

In the recovery app I selected the latest (and only) backup then hit 'Enter'.

 

Ok, thanks for confirming, so the next question is how far do you get in terms of the process for recovery?  Have you only selected the latest backup image file or have you got beyond that point?

What is the size of the backup image being selected?  The larger the file, the longer it can take while ATI checks the file system within the image without giving any real progress indication!

From your links I see that WPE was used. I did not realize that once the backup disk file was selected I had to right click to progress to the next step - I thought 'return' would do it. So the recovery is in progress for the C disk.

If the D and E HDD data disks are not working it seems that I can recover them also by the same method as the C disk since they were also backup at the same time as C. Is this correct?

Tork, if you have separate backups of the D and E disks, then yes, you can recover them in the same manner.

I do a complete PC backup that includes all 3 disks which I saw in the recovery choice where I selected C. Is this what you mean by separate backups?

If you have an Entire PC backup that includes all 3 disks, then the same principle applies in that you can choose to recover everything at once or else to recover each disk separately..