[thomasjk]

Originally Posted by Stoner

Seagate really should have noted that as they also sell their drives for 9x systems , but do not seem to mention a restriction of usage for Disk Wizard.

Hard to criticize something free, but they are selling hard drives for which Disk Wizard is associated with on their web site.

True but they do not mention the limitations of the two apps anywhere on their site that I could easily find. I already have TI9 Home which works quite well for me.

[horsecharles]

I've run both utilities on 9x for years now(albeit win98 patched with some ME & XP files) with no issues...although I'm sure patched win98 is not necessary-- as they also provide DOS & WEB-RUN versions of the software. In particular Maxblast will work on any brand drive as long as there's another Maxtor present in the system.

They're life-saving apps, free to boot-- among many things one can seamlessly clone a drive to a different-sized one, connect the new one & start up windows w/ nary a hiccup.

[thomasjk]

Are you talking about the latest version that are based on Acronis True Image 10? TI9 works on Win98 and ME. I've also use Maxblast V4 to clone a drive but V5 is a whole new beast. Since I have TI9 installed I use that for cloning and fro making backup images.

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by thomasjk

Are you talking about the latest version that are based on Acronis True Image 10? TI9 works on Win98 and ME. I've also use Maxblast V4 to clone a drive but V5 is a whole new beast. Since I have TI9 installed I use that for cloning and fro making backup images.

I'm talking about the free Acronis software that is included within Disk Wizard and Max Blast 5 at the links I posted in the #1 lead post.

Here:
Link

and here:
Link

Seagate does not denote which version of TrueImage that is, only that DiskWizard, itself, is version 10.

As I already have DI4 and DI2002, I don't really need an older version of TI for a 9x comp I still have. ......it's just that another member tried Disk Wizard on my recommendation and it didn't work...... because of the issue I posted about 9x.
It locked up his computer , so I tried it too and it locked up mine also.

I felt pretty bad about not knowing Disk Wizard wouldn't work on his computer, after recommending it.

[thomasjk]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I'm talking about the free Acronis software that is included within Disk Wizard and Max Blast 5 at the links I posted in the #1 lead post.

Here:
Link

and here:
Link

Seagate does not denote which version of TrueImage that is, only that DiskWizard, itself, is version 10.

As I already have DI4 and DI2002, I don't really need an older version of TI for a 9x comp I still have. ......it's just that another member tried Disk Wizard on my recommendation and it didn't work...... because of the issue I posted about 9x.
It locked up his computer , so I tried it too and it locked up mine also.

I felt pretty bad about not knowing Disk Wizard wouldn't work on his computer, after recommending it.

I was responding to horsecharles. But I do know that Diskwizard and Maxblast are modified versions of TI10 home which does not support 98 or ME.

[deuce]

Does anyone know if Disc wizard will image drives remotely, like ATI Echo does?

If yes, does anyone know if disc wizard will image linux, like ATI Echo Server does?

[deuce]

Well, I bit the bullet and picked up Echo. I wanted the ability to remotely backup my notebook so I can automate everything from my desktop on a scheduled basis.

I have to say though, True Image is amazing. I have always used Ghost because several years back Acronis was harder to get, and once you pay for one thing you may as well use it. Although I will still need to use ghost to backup the linux partition on my notebook, TI Echo 9.5 is very remarkable. I just backed up a partition with 10 GB on it, with maximum compression (33% original size) in minutes. I'm sure Ghost would have taken 10 times that.


Score one for Acronis.

[hewee]

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[JohnWill]

No offense hewee, but that's hardly the same as an image backup utility. A hell of a lot more expensive too.

I hope people don't actually believe the advertising hype and assume that there's no possibility of losing the data on that box.

[Bloodyskullz]

Thanks a bunch Stoner. Now I can image my brother's computer and my uncle's. Will post if it works.

Any news on them making one for WD HDD's?

[hewee]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

No offense hewee, but that's hardly the same as an image backup utility. A hell of a lot more expensive too.

I hope people don't actually believe the advertising hype and assume that there's no possibility of losing the data on that box.

Say it can be used for the Mac TimeMachine so a back up is made to the drive.
So any other backup program should be able to make backups to it also.

I don't understand all how it works either they way they move drives in and out.
But your sure right it is not a image backup utility and it sure is not cheap.

[Stingray10]

Does this do anything besides being able to use Acronis?