In the worst case scenario I at least can use the restore partition.
In this case, you need to update the driver in Device Manager: 1. My drive and partitions, with drive letters, are detected in Disk Management.
Then clone the screwed up drive from the internal drive, to the bad one in the external drive and you have a perfectly good internal drive, and a perfectly good back-up. If you tried the solutions mentioned above and the Seagate external hard drive is still not recognized or detected, the cause might be the hard drive itself. Acronis Magic Easy has detected unsupported hard disk drives Hi there Julio E Garcia, Acronis is an awesome software, but unfortunately, it does not support backup of the dynamic disks. So, I made an Acronis USB Boot drive instead.
Talking with DELL was also not very helpful as they don't use Acronis and so cannot provide help
* 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. * 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.
* Create a Bootable Standalone Recovery Manager – With the Drive Kit software, users can create a bootable ISO image file. * Drive Image Recovery – The Recovery Manager enables users to restore a drive image from a direct or network attached drive.
* 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. * Drive Deployment – Enables users to prepare a WD drive so that selected folders or partitions can be excluded from the destination image. * Drive Migration – Erase the source drive after the new WD drive has been imaged. * Drive Cloning – Copies the source drive to a new WD drive, leaving all data on the source drive. Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive. Western Digital is offering a Free Download of Acronis True Image WD Edition ( based on Acronis True Image 11 ) for owners of Western Digital Hard Drives.