Does Norton partner with any harddisk manufacturer to provide limited version of backup solution?

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Does Norton/Symantec partner with any HardDisk manufacturer to provide some limited version of Ghost(tm) or Save&Restore(tm) ?

e.g. Seagate DiscWizard(tm) is a free download from Seagate, and is a basic version of Acronis TrueImage(tm) which does image backups like Ghost(tm).

 

Reason I ask is because my Ghost 12 is not working with my new external USB drive:

http://community.norton.com/t5/Other-Norton-Products/Ghost-12-Can-t-lock-volume-because-it-contains-the-OS-or-has-an/m-p/240056#M23842