It goes without saying that I'm going to be switching to Clonezilla since its free and they'll never pull junk like that. But HD Imaging software NECESSARILY needs to run on arbitrary machines - or else it can't work! Apparently using it on one USB key on one system at a time does not fit into their licensing scheme.
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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