You might know about these. If you own one of these brands of hard drives you can use these free tools provided by the makers of the products.
MaxBlast (Maxtor)http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=MaxBlast_5&vgnextoid=7add8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
Disc Wizard (Seagate)http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard
WD Acronis True Image (Western Digital)http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en
I know there is software that allows you to use any brand of hard drive but these are alternatives that are quite easy to use
Regards,
Another PC Technician
