Acronis True Image is widely considered to be one of the best hard drive imaging utilities available for Windows. Unfortunately for some, Acronis knows how powerful their software is, and price it as a premium product. Well, it turns out that Seagate has a quiet arrangement with Acronis to bundle a rebranded version of True Image as a free download for Seagate and Maxtor drive owners. The Inquirer
has the scoop.
Tags: Acronis, Acronis True Image, AcronisTrueImage, Free True Image, FreeTrueImage, freeware, Maxtor, Seagate
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Subscribe to commentsClaus ValcaJul 28th 2007 5:32PM
Funny timing on this post.
I've just used this software to install and clone a new 500 GB Seagate drive in my system from the failing 120 GB Seagate one.
The software version "not" mentioned by name in this post that I used was Seagate DiscWizard: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard
There is a great PDF "How To" download that explains in great detail about the product and how to use it for various situations.
Here's my tip: Don't use the CD version that ships with the Seagate drive. It isn't quite the same one as the web-download...at least not in my experience. Go download the web-version instead. It will save you a BUNCH of time!
Hard-Drive Hell and the DiscWizards; A Six-Act Play
http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2007/07/hard-drive-hell-and-discwizards-six-act.html
--Cheers!
RPJul 29th 2007 2:35AM
Does Seagate DiscWizard support scheduled backups (eg: every night at 3 am)? With, say, a weekly full backup and nightly incrementals?
That's what I want. Ghost9 does this pretty well.
Claus ValcaJul 29th 2007 10:01AM
RP
Seagate's DiscWizard does lots of things...but I can't find anywhere in the application that scheduling of backups is supported...either in the application or the manual. I suppose with some Macro-making tool and a scheduler app it could be done, but that's a bit more work than I would like to put in.
The backup/restore aspect of the software is otherwise fairly full-featured with the ability to focus on drives / files / or folders, to mount images and to "explore" them to extract files within them, set compression weight, ftp support, and file size "chopping" of the image.
All in all it is a very featured product for being "free". And it is very well designed and polished for "novice" users to follow-along with.
However the "gotcha" seems to be that at least one of the drives on your system must be a Seagate one (to use Seagate DiscWizard) or a Maxtor (to use the similarly featured MaxBlast5).
Aside from the naming and internal application "branding" they appear to be identical.
RPJul 29th 2007 2:17PM
Thanks, Claus. I still may give it a try.
I have several Seagate drives now. I started buying Seagate after I had several Maxtors die after 1-2 years. Now I'm a big believer in backups! :-) :-(
Seagate has a 5-year warranty, so I started buying Seagate drives. Maxtor and Western Digital have only 3 years or 1 year -- except the WD Raptor. (Seagate's external drives still have short 1 year warranties, however.)
mukundJul 30th 2007 1:35PM
I see no download links for Acronis True Image. Please help!
FFJul 30th 2007 9:36PM
#5 (mukund):
The link is in the first comment on this page. See below.
[url=http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard]http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard[/url]
Old GuyAug 26th 2007 3:44PM
Seagate Disk Wizard is NOT the same thing as Acronis True Image. It is a crippled version, with limited functionality.
MattOct 2nd 2007 3:15PM
I downloaded the Seagate DiscWizard. Everytime i try to run it it pops with an error saying i need at least one Seagate or Maxtor drive and then links me to Acronis' website. I have 2 seagate drives installed in my system, so i'm not sure why i'm getting that error.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
AHMEDOct 19th 2007 1:58PM
Thanks
AHMEDOct 19th 2007 2:26PM
Thanks