pc doesn't recognize external drive after doing acronis clone

patch41

Vista Pro
Hi folks. i downloaded acronis true image on a 30-day trial period,and did a clone of my hard drive,now when i check the drives in my computer my external hardrive does not show, can anybody please help as i had a lot of programs and files stored which i can not access, any suggestions would be appreciated, i had WD-500gb external drive with over 300gb of free space,PC is windows vista premium 32-bit thank you, patch41
 

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Is it showing up in Disk Management ? ?
Right clik My Computer...select Manage ...then Disk Management.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Intel Q6600
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5K MBoard.
    Memory
    4G OCZ PC2 8500 Platinum
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 8800GTS Vid Card
    Hard Drives
    500G Seagate SATA
    200G Seagate SATA
    100G WD Caviar SATA
    80G WD Caviar IDE
    PSU
    OCZ Elite 800W PSU
    Case
    RaidMax Smilodon Case
    Other Info
    Lite-On dual layer DVD burner X 2
    Dos 6.2;Win2K;XP; &
    Vista Ultimate 64Bit.
It might just be missing a drive letter.

Give it a drive letter in Disk Management
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
thanks for replying patio, yes it did show up in disc management, i really dont know what i did but i finally got the computer to regognize it, but it was wiped clean so the first thing i did was get rid of acronis true image but again thanks for your reply...patch41
 

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