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Acronis True Image WD Edition helps to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive. It assures that all your important data, including photos, videos, music, documents, and applications, is fully protected. You can recover them quickly in the event of any disaster.
Cloning makes an exact copy of your old system drive on your new WD hard drive, including the operating system, applications, data, preferences, and email settings. Everything will be present and operate exactly as it did on your old hard drive.
Acronis True Image WD Edition supports WD Advanced Format Drives and ensures that all partitions are optimally aligned. ATI WD Edition provides complete system image backup and recovery of your home PC’s operating system, applications, settings, and personal files.
Acronis True Image WD Edition is based on the award-winning Acronis True Image backup, restore, and disaster recovery program. Use the intuitive graphical user interface to easily specify where you’ll back up your PC and how often.
Create copies of your hard drive in just a few quick steps while you continue working. If you lose an important file or need to recover an earlier version of it, don’t worry. You can go back in time to retrieve it in seconds.
Key Features of Acronis True Image WD Edition:
- Drive Cloning. Copies the source drive to a new WD drive, leaving all data on the source drive.
- Drive Migration. Erases the source drive after imaging the new WD drive.
- Drive Deployment. Enables users to prepare a WD drive so they can exclude selected folders or partitions from the destination image.
- Drive Image Backup. The long-term usage of the Drive Kit software will be to provide full drive image backups of a source drive at any time. Backup drive images will be stored as a file that can be copied to any directly attached drive, network-attached storage, or optical media (CD/DVD).
- Drive Image Recovery. The Recovery Manager enables users to restore a drive image from a direct or network-attached drive. The Recovery Manager can also erase just a portion of the drive to be used for the restored drive image or all of the previous OS.
- Create a Bootable Standalone Recovery Manager. With the Drive Kit software, users can create a bootable ISO image file. It contains the WD Drive Kit Standalone Recovery Manager software.
- Recover a Drive Image from the Bootable Recovery Manager. The bootable Standalone Recovery Manager enables users to recover a drive image from either a CD/DVD drive, a direct-attached drive, or a network-attached drive.
Applicable Products
My Book, My Book Duo, My Passport Ultra (WD Backup), My Passport Ultra Metal, WD Blue, WD Blue (Mobile), WD Black, WD Black (Mobile), WD Gold, WD RE / WD RE4, WD Re+, WD Se, WD Red, WD Red (Mobile), WD Red Pro, WD AV, WD Blue SSHD, WD Black SSHD, WD Desktop Performance, WD Desktop Mainstream, WD Network, WD Laptop Mainstream, WD S25.
Acronis True Image WD Edition – Pros & Cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| ✓ Creates an exact copy of a system drive, preserving the operating system, applications, personal files, settings, and email configuration. | ✗ The software is designed specifically for compatible Western Digital drives, so it is not a general-purpose cloning solution for every storage brand. |
| ✓ Provides full drive-image backup and recovery, with images that can be stored on directly attached drives, network storage, or optical media. | ✗ The Windows edition supports Windows 10 and 11, while the listed Mac edition supports macOS Catalina through Sonoma. |
| ✓ Supports drive migration and deployment, including the ability to exclude selected folders or partitions from a destination image. | ✗ Drive migration can erase the source drive after imaging, so users need to select the operation carefully when replacing an existing drive. |
| ✓ Can create a bootable standalone Recovery Manager for restoring drive images when the installed operating system cannot be started normally. | ✗ Creating and restoring full drive images can require additional storage because backup images contain the contents of the selected source drive. |
| ✓ Supports a broad range of file systems and storage devices, including HDDs, SSDs, network storage, USB, eSATA, FireWire, and SCSI devices. | ✗ The software provides cloning, migration, deployment, backup, recovery, and bootable recovery functions, which may be more than users need for a simple drive-copy task. |
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Acronis True Image WD Edition clone a hard drive to an SSD?
Yes. It can create an exact copy of a source system drive on a new compatible WD drive, preserving the operating system, applications, settings, and personal files. The software also supports SSD storage as a supported medium.
Can Acronis True Image WD Edition create a full system image backup?
Yes. It can create full drive-image backups that can be stored on directly attached drives, network-attached storage, or optical media. These images can later be restored using the Recovery Manager.
Does Acronis True Image WD Edition require a Western Digital drive?
Yes. The software is designed specifically for compatible Western Digital drives rather than being a general-purpose cloning solution for every storage brand. The article lists numerous supported WD product families, including WD Blue, WD Black, WD Red, WD Gold, and My Passport models.
What is the difference between Acronis True Image WD Edition and Macrium Reflect?
Both provide disk imaging and cloning capabilities, but the provided article does not contain enough information about Macrium Reflect to make a reliable feature-by-feature comparison. For this software, the documented limitation that matters most is its compatibility with supported Western Digital drives.
What’s New in Acronis True Image WD Edition Build 41936:
- [Mac] Added support for macOS 15 Sequoia.
- [Win] Added support for Windows 11 24H2.
- Bug fixes and other improvements.
Official Homepage – https://support-en.wd.com
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 11
- Windows 10 32-bit & 64-bit
Supported file systems
- NTFS
- Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
- ReiserFS(3)
- Linux SWAP
- HFS+*/HFSX
- FAT16/32/exFAT
Supported storage media
- Hard disk drives (HDD)
- Solid State Drives (SSD)
- Networked storage devices
- USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, eSATA, FireWire (IEEE-1394), SCSI, and PC card storage devices
Supported Apple macOS:
- macOS 14 Sonoma
- macOS 13 Ventura
- macOS 12 Monterey
- macOS Big Sur 11
- macOS Catalina 10.15
Supported file systems
- APFS
- HFS+ (including Core Storage)
- FAT32
- NTFS (including Boot Camp)
