Acronis True Image HD - No Hard Disk Detected
I encountered this problem with a recently purchased and pre-built Lenovo Thinkstation C30, which I opted to include a Kingston SSD V+ drive. The system came pre-built with the OS installed on to my HDD, and it was up to me to clone the drive to the Kingston SSD.
The problem I encountered was when booting to the Acronis True Image HD 2009 disk, I received an error of "No Hard Disks found."
I went through Kingston to get a more recent copy of ATI 2012, which resulted in the same error.
My solution follows:
Went into the BIOS and found that my hard disks were listed under SCU Devices and not SATA.
I opened the case to find 9 SATA ports on my motherboard: 5 in blue, 2 in red, and 2 in orange.
The HDD and SSD were connected to two blue ports labeled HDD1 and HDD2, my DVD ROM connected to a red port labeled SATA 0.
The issue is that Acronis software does not detect my blue (SCU) ports, so I re-arranged the cables, and plugged my HDD into the red port labeled SATA 0, and the SSD into the red port labeled SATA 1. I plugged the DVD-ROM into the orange port labeled SATA 2.
Reboot, and load the BIOS to set the boot priority accordingly. I wanted to boot from CD first.
Upon reboot, the acronis software detected all of my drives! I cloned the HDD to the SSD and shut down the computer.
I reconnected the drives to their previously existing configurations: HDD on HDD1 (blue), SSD on HDD2 (blue) and DVD on SATA 0 (red)
Reboot into BIOS to reconfigure the boot priority: DVD as primary, SSD as secondary, and HDD as tertiary followed by whatever else.
Restart computer. Tada!
As an endnote - Although the clone was successful, the system would not boot from my SSD on either the blue or red ports. I guess I'm still out of luck for now.