Hello Alan, thanks for the response.
The OS hard disc partition (Windows 7 64 bit) went up in smoke. Fortunately (hahahahaha) I had made an image backup of the entire C: drive (one 100MB partition) a few weeks back. I sill had daily backups of course. So, installed new hard drive (same model 1TB Seagate) and tried an image restore. Everything went smoothly until it was time to boot up. Then the problem emerged. I Googled "Seagate Disk Wizard NTLDR missing".. No shortage of items there going back a long time (at least 2008). Reading through the first couple of pages of search results didn't provide any useful information - except what I already knew (there's a problem).
So I fired up the Seagate site and searched there. Again, posts going back several years. Nothing useful there either (use Acronis instead (Duh!), etc) and ominously, NO replies from Seagate support!
I don't have free days to go on a wild goose chase looking for a solution that may or may not exist. Like most people, I expect to follow the on-screen instructions and end up with a good result.
Anyway, I've already restored the OS and software the hard way.
Alan, I appreciate you taking the trouble to respond and I understand that this mightn't be your day job but I remain firm in my opinion:
Disc Wizard is NOT reliable for the purposes of making and restoring disc images. I strongly recommend that people DO NOT USE IT!
Oh, and before I forget, whose daft idea was it to impose a MUST contain letters AND numbers requirement on one's password to log into the Seagate site? This isn't a banking
site. There's nothing sensitive here (unless you're sensitive to criticism). Clearly people don't have different passwords for all the HUNDREDS of sites that require them - especially the trivial sites.
