Remove the drive you need to keep from being wiped from the work area. Now that's safe.
You didn't reveal what software you used to backup so I can't comment if there's a problem here such as you need to use the USB 2.0 port or such.
Also, the Asus should have let you create a restore DVD or USB so I'd use that instead.
Bob
My specs are a asus p7p55 ws supercomputer with a lynnfield I5 one Intel 120 gb solid state boot drive (The one I need to restore) with a fresh 8.1 install on it and a 1 2tb hard drive with data stil on it from my old system before it crashed. Also I have a 320gb hard drive with Linux on it that doesn't show up in windows so I don't think that is part of the problem. I also have an external 1tb hard drive with two system images on it one of the 120gb solid state and one of the 2tb hard drive. This is a western digital my passport essential I believe. Ok now the problem I'm having is when I try to restore my system image on the install disc my external hard drive does not show up at all at this point. I'm hoping that I have to install some driver for this hard drive to be able to get read but I'm not sure it could be something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I don't want to loss all my files.

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