hmm, this is just an alternative method but I would ditch the Acronis and use Macrium reflect free to do the cloning. It's also free as the name suggest.
@shravan_dell Yes, there are editions of Acronis that are locked to specific vendors. If you want “universal” Acronis, you have to buy that. But some HDD vendors have deals with Acronis to offer free versions to people who buy their HDDs. CyberLink does the same thing with PowerDVD.
I agree with the suggestion to try Macrium Reflect Free. I use Reflect myself and the Free version will do what you need here.
shravan_dell
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Thanks everyone for the reply.
I have overcome the problem. Sharing it for the benefit of others.
I called the WD customer care and they advised me the following:
1) initialize the disk by going to disk management you do this by pressing (win+x), pop up appears and click on OK.
2) then right click on the unallocated volume from the new drive and create a new volume. This will basically format the disk once.
3) finally, now when I tried to clone the disk, it allowed me to....
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hmm, this is just an alternative method but I would ditch the Acronis and use Macrium reflect free to do the cloning. It's also free as the name suggest.
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October 9th, 2021 09:00
@shravan_dell Yes, there are editions of Acronis that are locked to specific vendors. If you want “universal” Acronis, you have to buy that. But some HDD vendors have deals with Acronis to offer free versions to people who buy their HDDs. CyberLink does the same thing with PowerDVD.
I agree with the suggestion to try Macrium Reflect Free. I use Reflect myself and the Free version will do what you need here.