One of the best HDD utilities is free
Usually, the hard drive manufacturers team up with utility makers and offer baseline features. Until now, that is.
Seagate has released a version of Disc Wizard and Maxtor's Max Blast 5, but what makes these utilities highly on the "me want" list is the fact that both are based on the OEM version of the excellent True Image app. Disc Wizard and Max Blast utilities now offer a plethora of options that give people options previously offered only by commercial applications. Disc Wizard/Max Blast feature disk drive cloning, full disk imaging, formatting drives, creating partitions, erasing all the data on the drive - for the best price of them all.
There is a grand total of 14 supported languages, and is totally free for owners of hard drives manufactured by Seagate or companies owned by Seagate. You need to have at least one drive in order for this utility to work, but worst case scenario would be using those external USB 2.0 drives by Seagate... when it comes to distribution, you can find this utility on CDs that are shipping with retail drives, or simply download the latest version.
Acronis is a well known company in this biz, but we were surprised to see both Seagate and Acronis keeping their mouths shut and not talking out loud about the co-operation. We wonder is there some agreement over keeping this cooperation silent, but Seagate missed out the fact that this hack uses Seagate drives. If you own Seagate or Maxtor hard drive, don't think - just follow our complementary L'INQs to get the software. µ
Comments
THANKS!!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for this!!! I was just getting ready to purchase Acronis when I found this article! Since I have a Seagate FreeAgent drive, I'm a Seagate customer who's currently installing DiscWizard!!! Thanks, again!Saved my bacon already.
I've been using this utility for several months ago, and it has already saved my bacon. Just don't forget to create the boot disk to retrieve the image back (use external Seagate drive for my backups; also use an internal Seagate drive, so I'm doubly verified. lolThanks
I am in midst of a system upgrade and was considering purchasing True Image.DiscWizard came with both of my Seagate drives. Thanks for saving me some $$!
FYI-Firewire Connection
If you have an external Seagate drive that can use either USB or Firewire connections, DiscWizard will only recognize the drive as being a Seagate drive when using the USB connection. It will not recognize the drive as being made by Seagate if you use the Firewire connection. OS: XP Pro Service Pack 3