I am in the process of upgrading my hard drive that is currently in my Toshiba Satellite Pro. I have a WD 750 GB Black that I have hooked up SATA to USB and initialized, formatted and activated. It is visible as drive E and all appears normal except that it is not recognized as a WD HDD. This is important because I am attempting to use Acronis True Image software to clone my existing drive. When I try to install the Acronis software I am unable to do so because I get the message that I must have at least one WD drive on my system.
So how do I get my system to identify the drive as a WD HDD?
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The requirement for the WD edition of Acronis TrueImage is that a WD drive be installed in the system during installation. An external drive doesn't meet the installation requirements. The drive is being correctly detected as not installed.
If your system has at least one IDE port and you can find any old WD drive, that will work. Once the software is installed, you can remove it.
