From the article:" 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" Acronis is a stand alone program. Make as many images as you like as long as a Seagate or affiliate drive is involved. I used this program to image a Toshiba drive attached via USB to my desktop, which has all Maxtor/Seagate drives. LarryB wrote: > Hugh Vandervoort wrote: > Acronis works for me, and you can get it free if you qualify: > http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/22/one-of-the-best-hdd-utilities-is-free > Paid version is $50.00 > > Question: It seems you have to pay that for each computer, correct? > ****************************************************************************** > Question: What does "if you qualifymean. > ***************************************************************************** > I went to the site and did not see anything about having to qualify. > Larryb ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . You can also send an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Your member list settings can be found at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=pcworks . Once logged in, you have access to numerous other email options. The list archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/pcworks/ . All email posted to the list will be placed there in the event anyone needs to look for previous posts.