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Restoring a vhd image from My Book 1TB external drive to Windows 7 Pro

I save all my backup images on my WD MyBook external drive. When using Windows 7 backup & restore for finding  my vhd  image the program prompts for a WD driver. The Device Manager shows disk.sys & prtmgr.sys but windows never accepts those drivers. Then states “Restore failed”. Is there a specific driver disk WD provides with acceptable drivers Windows restore will recognize.

Hi Norm, see if the following link helps. 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/usb-mass-storage-class-devices-fail-to-install-on/31ad9347-c18b-4b28-86e9-67f81734bd08

Ichigo . . . Thanks for your input. I intend to checkout the options shown in the link you provided. I also contacted Microsoft Support.  Thank you again . .  Norm

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