If you buy a Seagate HDD, some ship with scaled back version of True Image, or it can be downloaded from the Seagate website for free. This is the free software they offer to clone your current HDD to the new Seagate one you just bought. The only difference I see from the full retail version and the Seagate one, is that you can't set up a hidden or recovery partition, and restore during the PC boot-up. You will need to create a rescue disk and recover from a saved file either on multiple CD/DVDs, or on another partition on the HDDs in your PC.
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