Thought I should start a new thread for the benefit of others facing the same issue. I have back-up images of C and D on an external hard drive and want to transfer them to a new hard drive. I think I have already made one mistake because the Macrium Rescue CD is Linux - I think I made the wrong one as my OS is WinXP. I tried booting my computer with the old internal hard drive and Macrium Rescue CD to see what will happen. That is when I realized I have Linux. Then I went to the first step which asked me to select the location of the image I wanted to load and it did NOT show my external hard drive.

Do I need to make another Macrium Rescue CD? Why isn't my external hard drive showing? The Linux CD is the right one.  Don't know why the external drive is not showing up.I assume the external drive is CONNECTED via usb? See if there is a bios setting to enable USB at boot (or similar wording).Yes, connected by USB. I can't boot my computer to check the bios. Right now I am reinstalling the OS from the recovery discs that came with the computer. Don't know if this will be successful because I do not know specifically what is wrong with my internal HD. Thanks for your help!If SMART is reporting a problem with the hard drive, this may be the reason the boot CD doesn't see the USB drive.  A bad hard drive can hang the POST.

Computer does not boot to get to BIOS, so don't know what you mean.  If it won't POST (get to BIOS), it won't do much of anything.Sorry, I often use the wrong computer terms. I do get a screen with some choices at the bottom such as esc for menu, F10 for recovery and it gives me a button for set-up which may allow me to get to bios.  I had to click on esc to get a menu that allowed me to boot the CD ROM drive first. Ok, I completed formatting old hard drive and can now post and boot-up. Please tell me how to change bios setting so external hard drive shows when I boot with Macrium Rescue CD. Thanks.

Wow, am I in a time warp? Looking at my system as it existed in 2006 is overwhelming. I have given-up trying to update software. At the end of the format/ recovery, the diagnostics SAID 15 pr or file segments were unreadable. Can't wait for my new hard drive. Quote from: Computer_Commando on October 20, 2012, 04:26:42 PM

The Linux CD is the right one.  Don't know why the external drive is not showing up.

There is no support for the Free version of Macrium...i frankly don't see a need to purchase it.
If you boot from the CD the procedure is simple...it asks for the image file + point it to the External HDD...
Then it asks for a destination - point it to the new HDD and let it do it's thing.
When it is finished power down and disconnnect the external for now...set the internal HDD as 1st boot device and re-boot.

Where is the image labelled Newest ? ?
If you saved it to the external it should be there.
The Internal HDD should have 1st boot priority...actually i keep mine as CD/DVD 1st then internal HDD 2nd.