DiscWizard and MaxBlast

[vdns76b]

Discwizard is horrible for seagate drives. I have two ST3500641AS (SATA) drives, and dic wizard does not detect either one. Windows and my BIOS detect it just fine. Then it tells me to upgrade to a paid version of the program. WHY wouild I want to upgrade software that doesn't work in the first place? And I think it's sad that nobody from seagate has been in this forum giving any assistance. I bought the seagate only to do a direct backup of my other recently purchased seagate, I will never do so again.

[Melonade]

i really think i remember something about this, but it was for the older version of discwizard

tell you what, uninstall discwizard.  then go to the downloads page and redownload it and try again.  its free, ive never heard of any purchase upgrade.  i could be wrong of course

[gravidar]

Having the same issue here, in a way.

I have 4 seagate 7200.11 500MB drives in a RAID 5 array and disk wizard cannot see them as Seagate (only the raid controller) so when I'm trying to get data off an old Hitachi drive diskwizard tells me to get lost because I have no Seagate drives in the system

any way around this?

Message Edited by gravidar on 12-15-2008 01:08 PM

[gravidar]

Fortunately I had an old Maxtor drive lying around. This was sufficient to get the software to work (once I found an IDE cable too!) so I'm sorted, would still be nice to have a support option (1 use key perhaps) for people who can prove they have a Seagate drive that the s/w won't detect.

There are other posts here on this same subject so it's not an isolated incident. None of the others have had an official response either

[gravidar]

Wow, can't believe this is still the most recent topic on this.

Anyway, looks like it wouldn't have made a difference whether it was RAID or not as I'm trying to install a stand-alone Seagate drive and Seatools doesn't recognise it - right back on topic with the original post.

Looks like I'll have to dig out that old maxtor drive again! ... now where did I put that IDE cable

[Al_K]

Diskwizard seems to detect only new Seagate drive and not older Seagate or Maxtor SATA drives.  I bought two new Seagate hard drives that I wanted to set up as a Raid drive and I expected Diskwizard not to see this as a Seagate drive; what I did not expect was Seagate not to recognise my old Seagate non-raid drives or Maxtor drive in my server.

When I set the new 1TB drives as just plain SATA drives, the diskwizard finds the new blank Seagate drives.

I also have the cloning problem where Diskwizard goes through the motions without actually copying anything.  I have read else where that I need to disable my USB card reader.  Maybe disabling the USB card reader will also enable Diskwizard to recognise the old Seagate hard drives.  Maybe I have answered my own question   I will test this and report the results if I can ever find the message again.

Al

[galenical]

I had a problem that Disc Wizard would not recognise an old seagate 40G boot SATA drive with a 40Gb WD slave in my desktop. I plugged in a 500G usb external seagate and away it went.

If you have several PC's, consider a USB seagate to store images and validate DW on any system.

[oreo57]

I'm only writing because the stupidity still exists.. I have 2 internal disc drives (200 and 250 gb) and discwizard refuses to identify either one.. Seatools identifies each JUST FINE.. What's up with that???

Fortunately as others have found out, hooking an external "freeagent drive" allowed me to clone from the 200 to the 250..... 05114 date code on the 200.. 250's newer....ST3250823A

I believe this "ignoring" of some older drives in on purpose to drive revenue to Acronis.

THEN after the clone , the "new" drive wouldn't boot... Can't blame that totally on Acronis/Seagate since my system is oldish and is indeed a non standard boot ini file  .. But a rebuild of the MBR in windows XP fixed it.. XP said I had an unusual mbr configuration (orig drive still works fine sooo..???).... Never liked acronis too much anyways..

Oh and they are "only"  EIDE drives ..

and of course help is nowhere to be seen...... Bad free stuff is worse then no free stuff if you ask me....  

Here is some cool free stuff...

http://www.bugaco.com/calculators/seagate_date_code.php

200 gb is Sept. 14th. 2004......too bad I already tucked the 250 in,, I'm pretty sure it at least 4-5 years newer then the 200

fixboot

fixmbr 

[bear269]

I happened to stumble upon a solution to the problem of this program being rendered useless due to a damaged Seagate drive, and getting the error message to purchase the licensed version.  ALT + T O  Then click on the the enter error message,    TO stands for Technical Override and will get you past the error so you can use this program if it does not recognize your drive.  This problem drove me nuts until I found this.  If I were still a smoker I would have smoked a pack, I use electronic now.   If this solution helps you check out http://shrsl.com/?~pki

[HD Slider]

Unfortunately the use of "Alt-TO" does not work with the current release of DiscWizard.

I have genuine Seagate drives installed in all 9 of my PCs and with 3 of them the latest version of DiscWizard for some reason cannot see the drives and refuses to install.

In case anyone is keeping track of the model numbers with this issue, the drives I am using in all 3 of these PCs are Seagate model # ST3500418AS.

I've scoured the web for a solution and the only solution I've found is to install an older version of DiscWizard. 

Luckily I have an older version available.  DiscWizard version -11.0.8326 is able to properly detect my hard drives and does install (without using any override).