If you are booting a PC built on the Asus P5KC motherboard using the Recovery Boot CD from Acronis True Image, then depending on which version of Acronis True Image you are using, you may not see any hard drives to back up or restore; other than the USB drive you are backing up to (or restoring from).
The reason may be the settings in your BIOS.
On the first screen of BIOS settings, near the bottom, is SATA Configuration. Select that and the top option is named, suprisingly, SATA Configuration also. The setting you probably want to operate with normally is “Enhanced”, but certain versions of Acronis True Image won’t then see the hard drives.
Change this setting to “Compatible” until you are finished with the Acronis True Image operation, then change it back to enhanced.
This doesn’t seem to effect Acronis when run through Windows, just from the Recovery Boot CD. There may be other Asus (and other brands) boards effected, but the P5KC is the one I know for sure.
