From: mike 


http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39779


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EVERY HARD DRIVE manufacturer usually offers some piece of software that
will ease the moving of stuff between the drives, but also proves a good
backup tool.

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. æ

L'INQ
Seagate DiscWizard
Maxtor MaxBlast
Acronis website
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