Acronis will work with any drive right? Where as if you have the software that came with a drive and want to do something with a different manufacturers drive using that software. Its hit or miss?
By the way. Thanks OP.
Correct.
The Acronis available for WD ("WD edition") and Seagate ("Seagate edition") will only work if you have a drive that is from WD or Seagate plugged in.
Or in other words, if you install "WD edition" and your WD died, and you didn't have another one, you couldn't restore or backup anything.
Same thing applies for the "Seagate edition", and your seagate dies on you.
This version doesn't care about the make of the HD, and it will restore/backup just fine with any brand HD.
BTW, if you really want to clone, then you need to backup drive, then restore to the drive you want. It is a two step process, instead of one.