I can't find my backups on my external hard drive

Windows 7 recognizes my external hard drive, and "Backup & Restore" records that backups are being done on schedule, but I can't find the backups on the external drive, or create a folder on that drive where the backups are saved. Any suggestions?

Hi,
As it is a Windows 7 related question, it is recommended to post on Windows 7 forum instead of Windows Server forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/home?category=w7itpro
In the meantime I'm a little unclear about the question. Whether you select your Drive F, which located on your external hard disk, to save the backup in your backup schedule? please check if there is a folder named WindowsImageBackup on your external drive.
Backup should be stored in this folder. You can try to run your schedule manually to see if a backup will be created, or if any error occurs actually. 

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