Trying to restore image from external drive

I made a backup image in Windows 7, and stored it on my external WD 500gb My Book. Now, I've loaded the PC from the Recovery Disc, and it doesn't see or recognize my external HD. There's the option to install drivers for the external device, but WD says they don't have the drivers.......they should be included in Windows. Anyone else have this problem?
P.S. The external drive works fine besides this.

Have you made another image backup or scheduled Windows Backup on the external hard drive or the other partition?
You may pay attention to the prompt information when backup.
Keeping different versions of system images
If you're saving your system images on an internal or external drive, or on CDs or DVDs, you can keep several versions of system images. On internal and external hard drives, older system images will be deleted when the drive runs out of space. To help conserve disk space, you can manually delete older system images. For more information, see What backup settings should I use to maximize my disk space?
If you're saving your system images in a network location, you can only keep the most current system image for each computer. System images are saved in the format of drive\WindowsImageBackup\computer name\. If you have an existing system image for a computer and are creating a new one for the same computer, the new system image will overwrite the existing one. If you want to keep the existing system image, you can copy it to a different location before creating the new system image by following these steps:
1. Navigate to the location of the system image.
2. Copy the WindowsImageBackup folder to a new location.
Arthur Xie - MSFT

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Here is another thread that encounter similar problem with yours, please take its marked answered response as reference:
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H Kyle ,
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Restoring the BIOS
This document pertains to all HP Notebook PCs.
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02693833
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pitou wrote:
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