The fundamental nature of the software doesn't make that useless - if you have 5 engineers with 5 PCs and they all need autodesk, they should buy 5 copies, thats a given. I get it - Autodesk, Adobe, Microsoft - etc, these companies license you for one person to use one license on one PC. There never should have been a full-priced hard drive imaging software that is tied to a single machine - that makes it functionally useless. I'm $140 in the hole, I can't use what I paid for, and they want even more money out of me? Even if I was in unknowingly in violation of their license by using the USB key of version 5 on anything but my personal laptop, they're treating paid customers like evil software pirates and then using bait and switch to goad them into more expensive software. I asked for a refund and they insisted that because the terms were "clear" on the web site, that they can only offer me a 10% off coupon to the still-more-expensive version of the software.
Miray insists that this was their licensing all along, but personally I don't see the usefulness of a paid-for HD imaging suite that can only be used on a single computer. It turns out, they do not disclose that the new version is locked o a maximum of two computers, so the USB it gives you isn't just copy protected to itself, but it was never meant to be used on arbitrary computers.
I got a newer version of hardware with a Skylake CPU and it didn't seem to recognize the USB ports on it to pull the image from a USB hard drive, so I upgraded to HDClone6 Pro. I had purchased HDClone 5 professional edition last year and it was working great for my company - I installed it on a USB stick and it let me install drive images on our POS machines.
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