After Acronis 2015 Update, will Acronis Bootable DVD access external USB Drives?
I have updated Acronis 2015 to version current on 28th April 2015.
Will a freshly created Acronis Bootable DVD now access my external USB Drives?
Richard Davey
WD Passport Ultra USB external drive

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Posting Mistake - please ignore this.
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Accessing Locked USB drive from True Image Boot DVD
I've now got Acronis True Image Build 6613 and have created a bootable DVD.
I have a locked external USB 3.0 WD Ultra drive and can't unlock its data from the boot DVD.
The external drive is usually unlocked by running "WD Drive Unlock.exe" and entering the password.
After booting the DVD, I entered DOS Command Prompt and changed drive to that labelled "WD Unlocker".
I ran file "WD Drive Unlock.exe".
This brought up report
“The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present”.
So I can't access data on my locked Ultra drive.
Is there any way I can, perhaps by injecting drivers into the Iso for the boot DVD?
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I am not at all familiar with the WD utility you speak of but attempting to place the .exe file you speak of into the boot recovery media would in all likelihood crash the application. If it were me and I understand your situation correctly that you know the password and just need to run the .exe file to enter the password I would create a simple DOS boot jump drive and place the .exe on the drive so that it would run there.
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Beautiful idea, you got me thinking, and I tried it.
Sorry, it didn't work this time, perhaps I need to ask WD.
I am still trying to unlock my WD Ultra drive from Acronis True Image 2015 WinPE boot DVD.
I guess interface standards between external disk unlocking systems and WinPE boot disk suppliers are not yet defined (will they ever be).
I can unlock my WD USB drive from some WinPE boot DVDs, such as EaseUS Partition Master's
...but not from some other WinPE DVDs, such as my current version of Acronis True Image's.
So, as you suggested, I created a fresh hard disk FAT32 partition, containing (I think) all the original files from the WD Ultra USB drive.
After booting the Acronis True Image build 6525 boot DVD with WD drive connected on USB 2.0, I ran "WD Drive Unlock.exe" from the fresh partition.
Still the same result -
“The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present”.
Which subsystem is not present, and how do I revise Acronis boot DVD to supply it?
Perhaps I need to add drivers such as cdrom.sys, or virtual cdrom.sys?
Perhaps I need to ask WD.
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