For a 500GB drive it took about 2 hours 10 min from start (once I got things working) to finish. The Acronis displayed “Time left” was not accurate at all for me.
After saving and exiting BIOS settings my laptop booted into the Acronis clone operation. In BIOS boot tab all I did was disable Fast Boot, as Acronis was already #1 in boot order. So yeah, Acronis DOES work under Windows 11 as my old version shows. After restart BIOS settings are displayed. With that, Im actually running Acronis True Image 2018 (latest is 2021) on Windows 11 RTM (22000.258) and just used it the other day to restore some backup files and folders after clean installing Windows 11.
ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE WD EDITION WILL NOT INSTALL MANUAL
After boot select Troubleshoot, Advanced Options, UEFI Firmware Settings, Restart. Download the Data Lifeguard Tools software (Acronis True Image WD Edition and user manual and the WD diagnostic tool) and follow the instructions provided to complete the installation-Not sure, but I dont think theres any free version of Acronis True Image and if so, not like what Western Digital has to offer to its owners. For Windows 10 you have to go into Start-Settings-Update & Security, Recovery (left pane), Advanced Startup-Restart Now. After manually restarting I had to go through Acronis setup again and then got the pop-up message and was able to click restart from there.Īcronis did NOT automatically start after reboot. I got a message in notification panel/taskbar that Acronis was paused and to restart, and did so, but no “pop up”. Other problems I had with Windows 10 Home 18363.657 -ĭid not get “Restart” prompt after going through Acronis setup the first time. Acronis then recognized the drive as WD/Sandisk and proceeded. I opened Device Manager, expanded Disk Drives, found the Sandisk SSD and double-clicked, went to the “Volume” tab, selected “Populate” at the bottom.
I ran into the same problem of Acronis not recognizing the new USB-attached (USB-to-SATA adapter) SSD as WD/Sandisk, although mine is a SSD Plus, not Ultra.