Acronis captures and runs a Seaagate Disc Wizard download

It's the Seagate application installer itself that is telling you that you already have the 2012 version of TIH installed and, therefore, it can't (won't) install "Disk Wizard" unless you remove that other Acronis backup and recovery product first.

The choice is entirely up to you, but if TIH2012 is working properly for you and providing you with the backup and recovery services that you need, the Seagate branded "Disk Wizard" application is probably redundant. It appears to be limited to cloning operations only and may also be limited to Seagate drives.

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I've solved it another way. sort of. I D/L Seagate tools for DOS then Burned it to CD then restarted that computer.

The point was that It was thought by some that "Wizard" may contain tools by seagate to format/partition/make volumes on one of their eSATA drives I have (external). Win-7 Disk Management acknowledges the drive and shows1500mb in four Volumes. But it claims the drive was formatted outside Windows.

True, it's my own external HDD for one of my DTV DVR's. It's been skipping/freezing and otherwise giving evidence it needs defrag or reformatting. But, as I said, Win-7 could not do it. Seagate website indicated two programs.

Apparently Acronis intercepted? Why else is it stating "Powered by Acronis" on the start-up logo of Seagate-Disk-Wizard?

Acronis can't read the disk and can't format it, so I think I wanted to use the one form the company who made the drive. That didn't work in the Windows-7 environment.

Thanks for the help though.

There's no mysterious "interception" involved. The Seagate branded utility installer is just detecting and reporting the existing TIH installation. That Seagate utility actually is "Powered by Acronis" inasmuch as it uses a modified version of the Acronis core product. In any case, just use whatever works best for you at this point. The TIH2012 initial release currently has quite a few "bugs" as you'll see posted here in these forums.

OK, thanks for the clarification.

As for 2012 being 'buggy': true enough. maddening at times.

But still the best product on the market.