As long as you have a Seagate (or I think Maxtor as Seagate also own Maxtor) hard drive somewhere on your system then you can use Seagate Discwizard available from Seagate web site. It is basically Acronis True Image 11 (I think) and is completely free of charge. Even if you only have a Seagate external attached then you qualify to use it. I have used it to backup and it works fine but I only have XP installed on my computers at the moment. With this software you can also make a boot-up disk so that you can restore a complete partition without booting into Windows which is obviously useful if you had a catastrophic crash and unable to boot up normally. Acronis True Image often recommended and the Seagate software offers all the essential functions of True Image.