When the Acronis True Image WD Edition does not clone, here you can find out why, how to solve it, and get a better workaround to clone WD hard drive.
For most users, Acronis True Image WD Edition will be their prior choice for cloning WD hard drive. However, some of them report that Acronis True Image WD Edition will not clone, like the below one:
"I am trying to clone my hard drive to a new WD_BLACK P50 Game Drive SSD using Acronis True Image WD Edition that was downloaded from the WD site. However, when I try to run the Acronis WD Edition software it says “Acronis True Image WD Edition Installation Restricted - This product edition requires at least one Western Digital drive to be installed in your system. Not to mention to start cloning process."
For the Acronis True Image WD Edition not clone issue, that’s because your WD SSD is connected via a USB cable so it cannot be found by the software. To solve this, you can contact WD support to download a special .exe file. Then run the .exe file 3-4 times. After that, run the Acronis install file again and it will find the WD drive and allow you to proceed.
When the Acronis True Image WD edition fails to clone disk, compared with searching and trying all kinds of solutions, it would be much better to get an alternative to Acronis True Image WD Edition. Actually, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional can be the right choice to clone Western Digital and other brands' hard drives in Windows 10/8/7.
Apart from cloning an entire system/data disk, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional also allows copying a specific partition in case you just want to migrate data in one partition to another location. For cloning the Windows partition, you can try its "Migrate OS to SSD Wizard". Now you can free download its Demo version and take a look at how to clone (WD) hard drive in Windows 10/8/7.
Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface, and select "Clone Disk".
Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".
Step 3. Select another drive as the destination disk, and then click "Next".
Step 4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to "Sector to Sector clone", and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.
Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed of the SSD.
Step 6. You can preview the disk cloning operation by viewing the "Pending Operations". To commit the "Pending Operations", please click "Apply" and "Proceed".
Since the above demonstration involves the system disk, so a reboot is required. If you are planning to clone GPT system disk to MBR or MBR system disk to GPT disk, you will have to change boot mode between BIOS and UEFI for boot success.
When Acronis True Image WD Edition will not clone, you can turn to this powerful WD cloning software to clone Western Digital HDD or SSD (even the latest WD_BLACK P50 Game Drive SSD) easily in Windows 10/8/7. If you are running Windows Server, please try AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.