Free Acronis True Image WD Edition Software

**RicheemxX** · September 14th, 2009, 06:40 PM

ester Digital is giving away free copies of Acronis True Image WD Edition software, I believe you must have a WD drive in order for the software to work. But hey its free and it works great for drive imaging and back up

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Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive. 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.

Key Features of Acronis True Image WD Edition Software:

Drive Cloning - Copies the source drive to a new WD drive, leaving all data on the source drive.
Drive Migration - Erase the source drive after the new WD drive has been imaged.
Drive Deployment - Enables users to prepare a WD drive so that selected folders or partitions can be excluded 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, which can be copied to any direct attached drive, network attached storage drive 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 either 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, which contains the WD Drive Kit Standalone Recovery Manager software.
Recover a Drive Image from the Bootable Recovery Manager Software - 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.
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.

Acronis True Image WD Edition Software

File Size: 121 MB (approx.)
Version: 11.0 (build 8,311)
Publish Date: August, 2009

Supported Operating Systems

Windows XP
Windows Vista

Instructions

Click on the Download Now button in the upper right corner.
On the Language page, choose the language version of software you want to download.
Download the Acronis True Image WD Edition Software to your computer.
Make sure you close all programs, and click on the EXE file. The install wizard will carry you through the installation process.
You will need to reboot your computer once the installation is completed.

stroyal · September 14th, 2009, 07:21 PM

Downloaded.
I was looking for the one that fit on a floppy just the other day, this is much better, thanks for the link.

ShyguyXPC · September 14th, 2009, 10:11 PM

This Western Digital Edition, is this based on the latest release or one of the older ones?

I've got True Image from last year when they were selling the prior latest version for fraction of full price in anticipation for release of new one coming out a week or two later.

**RicheemxX** · September 14th, 2009, 10:21 PM

"ATIWD is based on the award winning Acronis True image Home 2009"

sorry forgot to add that sentence from the page, but I believe that is the latest release they have.

ShyguyXPC · September 15th, 2009, 02:59 AM

ahh, ok, so it is the newer version.

might have to check it out, currently using last years "version" I think...

Version 11 looks like it.

Which reminds me, I have to remember running a fresh backup soon for the main drive, haven't done so in over a month and half.

ShyguyXPC · September 15th, 2009, 03:07 AM

never mind I see its also Version 11, mine must of updated itself to latest version then.

voogru · September 15th, 2009, 11:13 AM

Cool, most of my drives are WD drives but I wonder if it only does operations on WD drives.

trucilapio · September 28th, 2009, 07:53 PM

thanx

SiriusDoggy · October 21st, 2009, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by voogru

Cool, most of my drives are WD drives but I wonder if it only does operations on WD drives.

From page 6 of the instructions: Acronis True Image WD Edition allows selecting only Western digital HDD as a restore location and for Cloning operation.

stroyal · October 22nd, 2009, 10:33 AM

Just used it several times, and as long as one of the drives is WD it works for transferring an image.

It will work from a WD drive to another brand, or from another brand to WD.

If there is no WD drive, you get a message to buy the full version.

I didn't use it to save or restore an image, so I don't know how that works.