Seagate DiscWizard now includes Acronis True Image 10!

[JustaGeek]

Seagate DiscWizard now includes Acronis True Image 10!

Same applies to the Maxtor MaxBlast.

All it requires is at least 1 Seagate or Maxtor Hard Drive installed in your system.

Available for free download here:

DiscWizard 10

MaxBlast 5

Enjoy your free software, courtesy of my favorite choice for Hard Drives!

 

[myocardia]

That's awesome. Of course, Seagate has had some sort of disk copying software in their DiscWizard, for quite awhile now.

 

[soccerballtux]

Can these programs manage copying for you as well? I found recently the hard way that you will lose files if you simply are ctrl selecting tons of directories with tons of files and copying them to another drive. Fortunately it was simply some install files in my Softwares folder that were easily downloadable again, but still it was a nusiance to track them down again.

At any rate, I had no idea Windows Xp couldn't handle copying lots of files.
Do these programs assist with this?

 

[Bluefront]

What we're talking about is an image of a complete drive, or a partition. This is quite a bit different from a bunch of files sitting somewhere. With an image of your operating system stored on a back-up drive or DVDs even, that whole installation can be brought back to life after a drive failure, or an operating system melt-down.

I use Drive Image 7.0 for this procedure, but other programs such as the one mentioned, also work well.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Do these programs assist with this?

They make a bit for bit copy of an entire partition, including the boot partition, which is the main reason for their existence.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
Seagate DiscWizard now includes Acronis True Image 10!

Enjoy your free software, courtesy of my favorite choice for Hard Drives!

:roll: Not quite...

"To use the product, at least one Seagate or Maxtor device should be installed in your system.

You can purchase an upgrade to Acronis True Image Home edition by visiting www.acronis.com/seagate or by clicking on the Powered by Acronis logos that appear in the task wizards of the Windows application."

 

[JustaGeek]

Or you can go here
and get TrueImage 11 for ~$9.99 AR.

But apparently True Image 11 is limited to a single computer.

BTW, is your sour response related to the fact that you use WD drives, Blain...?

IMO, it is a great news for Seagate and Maxtor owners, any way you slice it.

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: myocardia
That's awesome. Of course, Seagate has had some sort of disk copying software in their DiscWizard, for quite awhile now.

I used their previous version (Guess v. 5) to copy my Hard Drive from an IDE to SATA a few years back, but it missed the entire hidden C:\Windows\Installer directory.

I couldn't even uninstall Norton, and some other programs would stop working!

Manual copying resolved the problem though.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
BTW, is your sour response related to the fact that you use WD drives, Blain...?

IMO, it is a great news for Seagate and Maxtor owners, any way you slice it.

"Sour"? I was only posting a message from the program.

BTW, I do have a Seagate HD running in my PC, but not for the OS.

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
BTW, is your sour response related to the fact that you use WD drives, Blain...?

IMO, it is a great news for Seagate and Maxtor owners, any way you slice it.

"Sour"? I was only posting a message from the program.

BTW, I do have a Seagate HD running in my PC, but not for the OS.

They don't say that it must be the OS drive, so I am sure it will work fine on your setup.

 

[bruceb]

How is the program going to know if you do not have a Seagate Drive installed ? ?
And as to what drives, personally I like Western Digital & for my laptop, Hitachi Drives

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
They don't say that it must be the OS drive, so I am sure it will work fine on your setup.

The message I quoted was directly from DiscWizard when I tried to run in on my system.

"How is the program going to know if you do not have a Seagate Drive installed ? ?"

It scans your system drives. :roll:

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
They don't say that it must be the OS drive, so I am sure it will work fine on your setup.

The message I quoted was directly from DiscWizard when I tried to run in on my system.

"How is the program going to know if you do not have a Seagate Drive installed ? ?"

It scans your system drives. :roll:

Well, I'm just the messenger.

And ALL my Hard Drives are Seagate.

Sorry!

BTW, I would contact Seagate and ask them what's going on. You DO have one Seagate drive installed.

 

[corkyg]

Keep one thing in mind - only TI-11 will clone a Vista drive probably w/o creating a boot sector error on both the source and destination drives. (Easily fixed with a quick repair using the Vista DVD.)

As for installing on one machine, that applies to all versions of TI. HOWEVER!!! Once you create the bootable CDR with the full program, it can be used on any machine - no installation necessary.

Anyway - it is a good move by Seagate to do this.

 

[Davegod]

thanks JustaGeek, I'd been wondering what to use to clone my boot drive onto my new 500gig drive.

Had been considering using the thing on UBCD but after reading this I got MaxBlast which worked like a charm. Only issue I encountered was the old drive had a partition - software was being a nuisance as it was insisting that the new drive also have a partition (yes it allows you to relayout but still must have a minimum-size partition). Since the partition had no files I just deleted it in window's drive management, everything worked like a charm after that.

I'll give it a week and then clean out the old drive.

 

[mindless1]

Anybody know if we really need to have both DiscWizard 10 AND MaxBlast 5? I mean has anyone seen text about or tried to use either of these on the other (Maxtor or Seagate) brand (with only that other Maxtor or Seagate brand in the system so you know it wasn't just working because it saw the same branded drive)?

 

[Davegod]

you need either software, not both. Don't know if the maxtor software will work with only a seagate drive, but since seagate owns both I assume so. Is there much difference between maxblast and diskwizard?

 

[mindless1]

Originally posted by: Davegod
Don't know if the maxtor software will work with only a seagate drive, but since seagate owns both I assume so.

That's what I was asking, if anyone knows for certain if/when one works with the other.

 

[Roguestar]

Interesting. I've just remembered that two of my secondary drives are Maxtor (still chugging along) so hopefully it'll gloss over the fact I run a WD for my system drive .