Recovery of files , drive missing, yet backups successful using GPT disk 4TB USB backup destination

I have an HP ML310e G8 v2 server with 4x1TB drives in RAID 5. I created 2 logical drives in the array. Disk0 (C:\) is 250GB and has the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials OS installed formatted NTFS with MBR. Drive1 (E:\) is 2.5TB formatted NTFS with GPT
this drive is used for the server shares and other client data.
I am using Azure Online backup to protect the critical client data.
Local backup - I am also using Windows Server Backup to perform a full system, bare metal backup. This backup writes to a 4TB western digital USB 3 drive, formatted NTFS and using GPT.
The Problem is when I attempted to perform a test recovery of a file from the local backup using Windows Server Backup. I am able to browse files to recover on the C:\ but the E:\ does not appear as a location to perform a recovery from. Yet the WBS configuration
indicates that backups have been running successfully and that the backup size corresponds to the proper data size for the full server (approximately 600GB).
Does anyone know why the E:\ does not appear as a drive to browse and recover files from?
From the reading I did I "thought" that the >2TB and 4k sector size problems from Windows Server Backup on 2008 had been fixed in 2012R2. Maybe my problem is not related to this but I can't think of any other possible problem.
MZ

Hi MZ,
Based on your description, I’m a little confused with this issue. You describe “I am able to browse files
to recover on the C:\ but the E:\ does not appear as a location to perform a recovery from.” Would you please provide a screenshot? It may help me to understand that which step you failed to recover. (Please hide all private and protected information.)
Meanwhile, would you please open WindowsImageBackup folder and navigate to that backup file (VHDX file). Please
mount it, and assign a drive letter to it in Disk Management. Then please check if you can find all files.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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