HELP : I cannot use acronis with my brand new Sandisk Ultra II

I’ve just bought from amazon.ca a Sandisk Ultra II 960 Gb (SDSSDHII-960G-G25).

In the Sandisk Dashboard, I tried to use Acronis link in the but Acronis said I need a western digital drive to be installed !!

I need to clone my old HDD to this new SSD ASAP.

Did anybody had the same issue ? solved ?

how are you connecting the ssd to the computer? some SATA to USB cables do not pass the drive info through to the PC so the software cant recognize it as a WD or sandisk ssd. You may want to try a different cable or enclosure. 

If that does not work or if you do not have another contact sandisk support. They may have another solution for you to try. 

Just as a heads up… I just recently used Acronis 2010 Home version to load an image on a SanDisk Ultra II 960GB, and encountered no problem…

Yea, I had the same issue when I upgraded another system with a WD Blue series SSD…  Acronis would pick up on the drive, install, but when it came time to do that actual cloneing process it load, and then present a message box stating that I didn’t have any WD/Sandisk drive installed and direct me to go purchase a full copy of Acronis (it wouldn’t run beyond that prompt).  I was using the internal native SATA 3 controller of that system, not another interface (ie: USB).  After several attampts to try and figure out why it wasn’t working, I threw in the towel and ended up using AOMEI Backupper (the free edition) to clone the drive I wanted to replace.

I just returned from an out of town visit where I upgraded 2 different laptops… to Sandisk Ultra II SSD’s…

One had previously had a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive, and other was another mfg (which immediately went into a USB Enclosure for a data use…)…

Both were updated flawlessly with Acronis…

From what you posted, it might be that the Acronis you got was a free copy from a drive mfg, and they may have ‘altered’ it… so it only works with their drives… ???

Here is how to make it work 

The Sandisk or WD drive must be inside the laptop computer; the old drive can be connected with a usb cable. 

When you connected the Sandisk using a usb cable, the Acronis program sees it as a usb generic drive … but when it is in the hard drive caddy ( laptop) the system will recognise it as “branded”.

Then Acronis will work and do a remarkable job!

I am having the same problem.  My sandisk is in the internal caddy of my dell laptop.  It is correctly recognised by the sandisk software, but acronis greys out the optuion to use it.

well that was a pain.

I had to initialize the disk in order for acronis to recognize it (this should be possible to do from the sandisk dashboard–or at least it should tell me it needs to be done.)

Then I initialized it to eufi instead of mbr, which wouldn’t boot.  On the third clone attempt I have a bootable MBR disk.

Hope this helps somebody else.

There is tons of cloning software out there, did you tryed Macrium free, it let you clone your disk with ease https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

@drlucky wrote:

how are you connecting the ssd to the computer? some SATA to USB cables do not pass the drive info through to the PC so the software cant recognize it as a WD or sandisk ssd. You may want to try a different cable or enclosure. 

 

If that does not work or if you do not have another contact sandisk support. They may have another solution for you to try. 

I just recently used Acronis 2010 Home version to load an image on a SanDisk Ultra II 960GB, and encountered no problem.

@woodslanding wrote:

well that was a pain.

 

I had to initialize the disk in order for acronis to recognize it (this should be possible to do from the sandisk dashboard–or at least it should tell me it needs to be done.)

 

Then I initialized it to eufi instead of mbr, which wouldn’t boot.  On the third clone attempt I have a bootable MBR disk.

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Hope this helps somebody else.

I just recently used Acronis 2010 Home version to load an image on a SanDisk Ultra II 960GB, and encountered no problem

2/27/2020 -

I ran into the same problem of Acronis not recognizing the new USB-attached (USB-to-SATA adapter) SSD as WD/Sandisk, although mine is a SSD Plus, not Ultra. I opened Device Manager, expanded Disk Drives, found the Sandisk SSD and double-clicked, went to the “Volume” tab, selected “Populate” at the bottom. Acronis then recognized the drive as WD/Sandisk and proceeded.

Other problems I had with Windows 10 Home 18363.657 -

  • Did not get “Restart” prompt after going through Acronis setup the first time. I got a message in notification panel/taskbar that Acronis was paused and to restart, and did so, but no “pop up”. After manually restarting I had to go through Acronis setup again and then got the pop-up message and was able to click restart from there.

  • Acronis did NOT automatically start after reboot. I had to go into BIOS settings. For Windows 10 you have to go into Start-Settings-Update & Security, Recovery (left pane), Advanced Startup-Restart Now. After boot select Troubleshoot, Advanced Options, UEFI Firmware Settings, Restart. After restart BIOS settings are displayed. In BIOS boot tab all I did was disable Fast Boot, as Acronis was already #1 in boot order. After saving and exiting BIOS settings my laptop booted into the Acronis clone operation.

The Acronis displayed “Time left” was not accurate at all for me. For a 500GB drive it took about 2 hours 10 min from start (once I got things working) to finish.