Free Acronis True Image OEM for Seagate/Maxtor HDDs
Posted by Mel on 2007/06/05
One of the best HDD utilities is free – the Inquirer (Via)
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.
If you have a Seagate or Maxtor HDD, then check this out now!
zoomdog said
excellent product .. been using it for a while and no problems
Gregg said
Do you know if this software will work if one of these drives is from another company (like Western Digital)?
Mel said
I have not used it yet but I suspect it does not support any other manufacturers drives. Zoomdog?
Z-dog said
have used this on a variety of drive with out issue
granted me doing something with out issue is a unique sight .. but as the ole saying goes .. nothing ventured nothing gained..
Tech iT eZ - Computer Repairs said
This is great news, been using Acronis TrueImage for a very long time now. Does this diskwizard also have an option to create a boot disk ?
OBloodyHell said
The Seagate Disc Wizard requires that *a* seagate disk drive be “present” “in the system” — they do not require that the drive be the one being operated on or even involved. I have used it on my laptop with an external usb seagate drive attached, on the internal drives. It did refuse to operate until I attached the usb drive, however. Still a good deal.
The TrueImage is based on v10. As I write this, v11 is currently available. Also, there is reduced functionality from the tool, not all of the trueimage features are implemented, but the basic disk-image creation and bootable version tools are functional. Could not make it create a bootable flash drive but that may tie to the USB initialization issue that requires the flashdrive be prepped using that HP tool that’s a pain in the rectal orifice to locate. I haven’t had time to test that theory yet.