Seagate DiscWizard offers a professional-grade solution for protecting and migrating data, utilizing the renowned Acronis True Image engine to deliver reliable performance for Windows users. Designed specifically for owners of Seagate, Maxtor, LaCie, or Samsung hard drives, this utility provides a cost-effective way to clone operating systems and create full system backups without purchasing a standalone subscription. By detecting a supported drive on your system, it unlocks a suite of maintenance tools that handles everything from simple daily backups to complex drive upgrades.
Key Features
- Disk Cloning Utility: Migrates your entire Windows operating system, applications, and personal files to a new Seagate drive, making the transition from an old HDD to a faster SSD straightforward and efficient.
- Full Image Backup: Captures an exact sector-by-sector snapshot of your partition or entire disk, allowing you to restore your computer to a specific point in time after a system failure or software error.
- Bootable Rescue Media Builder: Creates a recovery USB drive or CD that allows you to boot the computer and restore backups even if the Windows operating system fails to start up completely.
- Mount Backup Image: Mounts previously created backup images as virtual drives in Windows Explorer, enabling you to browse, copy, and retrieve individual files without restoring the entire system image.
- Drive Cleanser: Securely wipes all data from an old hard drive or partition using industry-standard algorithms, ensuring sensitive information is permanently unrecoverable before you sell or recycle hardware.
Use Cases
This software is ideal for PC builders and home users who need to upgrade their primary storage to a new high-speed Seagate SSD without reinstalling Windows from scratch. It also serves effectively as a disaster recovery plan for remote workers, ensuring that a working system image is always available to restore productivity quickly after a virus attack or drive corruption.
Seagate DiscWizard provides the premium reliability of Acronis technology at no additional cost for Seagate hardware owners, making it a smart choice for maintaining system integrity on Windows 10 and 11 machines.
Version 27.0.39868 — March 2023
- Updated the underlying backup engine to align with Acronis True Image 2021 technology for better reliability.
- Added full compatibility and support for Windows 11 operating systems.
- Improved connectivity and detection capabilities for USB external storage devices.
- Enhanced support for handling and cloning diagnostic partitions during disk migration.
- Optimized overall performance and stability for faster backup and recovery operations.
