What would be more direct than that, for an external disk?Ģ) “if connected to an USB enclosure it might not work.” What does “enclosure” mean here? I think that some sort of case would surround any external hard disk.

There is a USB cable from the Apricorn external disk (which uses a Hitachi hard disk) to a USB port on my laptop computer. But since I am not knowledgeable, I need a clarification of your statements,ġ) “The software requires the computer to have the drive directly connected to the computer.” I don’t know what “directly” means. * Mouse or other pointing device (recommended).Īcronis True Image WD Edition rescue media has the following hardware requirements: * CD-RW/DVD-RW drive for bootable media creation In addition Acronis True Image WD Edition requires the following hardware: The hardware requirements of Acronis True Image WD Edition correspond to the minimum requirements for the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Acronis True Image WD Edition. The Acronis TrueImage WD Edition UsersGuide, page 8, Minimum System Requirements, are: The Apricorn software was EzGigII, which was a simplified variant of Acronis. With my C840, I make image backups to an Apricorn external hard disk made by Hitachi. (I also am not sure of the meaning of “rescue media.”) And since I won’t be cloning anything - I will do backups and restorations only - I don’t know if the Attached device requirement applies to my intended use of Acronis True Image WD Edition. My problem is that although I can guess, I don’t know for sure the meaning of “Attached Western Digital device” in the Minimum System Requirements section of the Acronis True Image WD Edition User Guide. On my E6500, can I use the Western Digital Edition of Acronis True Image for partition backups to (and restorations from) a non-WD external hard disk, or must both the source and the target be WD drives?

I have _ no _ expectation of ever cloning anything. I am in the process of setting it up, as a replacement for my Dell Latitude C840, running WinXPsp3.įor the purpose of making and restoring backup images of my E6500’s partitions C: and D:to an Apricorn external disk (which happens to be Hitachi), from the WD website I downloaded (but did not install) Acronis True Image WD Edition, and its User Guide. I have recently acquired a Dell Latitude E6500 with a Western Digital Hard drive, running Windows 7sp1.

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