System cannot find hard drive to put system image on

Does wbadmin command find it?

From winpe:

wbadmin get versions -backuptarget:d:

Obviously replace d: with the drive letter ( as seen form winpe) where your image is stored. (I assume it is in the original folder structure).

You mean reboot to the repair menu (blue screen) and go to the DOS option and type the string?

Am I to understand this will recover my computer from the version I find? I do not want to recover a drive. I want to create a system image on this drive (OP: "to put system image on"). The drive has nothing on it except games. There is no system image or backup files on it.

If you have an esp partition you will have to restore that as well ( restore it first if it was the first partition ).

The -backuptarget is the drive containing the system image. You will have to have that attached so winpe can see it.

The -recovertarget is where you want to copy the contents of the image file.

That is the easy bit. You may need to fix the restored os drive letter. Tricky to do manually, so I included that function in these guys: NT6.zip

Fix Drive Letter section. Select the recoverytarget letter in the dropdown and click FIX. It is almost instant.

You want to create a system image and save it onto a drive that doesn't show in system image GUI?

You coul try removing the drive letter in diskmgmt, then assign it another.

FYI: my disk management: I am trying to copy (for the first time) a sys image on E.

Very odd.

Maybe free version of Z-dbackup will see it. Z-DBackup Free Backup Software for Windows

It is a basically a GUI for win Sys img. It may coax win sys image to save onto E.

System Image Backup with Z-DBackup Freeware - YouTube