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Recovering Data from Network Drive outside of Windows

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I am sure this question has been asked in many flavours, but I have a big question.

I have a licensed copy of Acronis TI 2010. I recently purchases a 1 TB network drive connected to my router. It is a Western Digital MyBook Live external drive.

My main goal here is to store backups & system images in case of a total failure or if something else goes wrong. I can backup all my laptops & desktops on this one drive so I should be able to easily find the backup when I need it.

Within Windows, I can backup to the network no problem. Also, within Windows, I can retrieve a non-system image (ie: no reboot to restore) from the Network drive.

However, the bootable media cannot find the network drive. I tried the one within Acronis, the one created from the program and the one I downloaded from My Account in the website.

I have tried mapping the NPAS, but I think I only have an NAS (I don't have a write key or a 15 digit code). I found my IP address for this drive in System Information, and manually tried to select the settings...no dice. Finally, I tried to manually spell out the name of my network source, like \\MediaStorage\Public or something like that.

Acronis True Image is USELESS to me without the ability to restore from my network. Are there not any Linux drivers for this within the recovery environment? Even if I started my recovery within Windows and it sees the network, what happens when I get the 'please reboot to restore the image'...will it find my network?

This should be something that is easily fixed shouldn't it?

If there is no easy solution, then I've just wasted a lot of money....on my Network Drive AND on ATI 2010!

Please help!

Thanks.

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You need to see the drive from the recovery CD. If it doesn't work from the recovery CD, it won't work from the pre-windows environment. You got it right.
You can try with a CD built with 2011 (I wouldn't bet on this too much, but worth a try).
You can try to build a BartPE recovery disk, or even a WinPE recovery disk (with the ACronis Plus Pack). The WinPE one uses Windows drivers so you have a better chance to access resources like Windows would do.
This is not a guarantee, but this is your best shot.