by smolds » Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:01 am
As an aside, right after I finished the migration" to my USB drive, I installed Win 10 - that was why I needed to make the clone in the first place...
Yesterday, while trying to find a way to use the old Word and Excel 2000 programs that worked on Win 7, I clicked on a button that said "Find out more"...it immediately started downloading stuff, several strange programs appeared, and web pages I couldn't close flashed across the screen.
Then I discovered that none of my browsers worked - Firefox had disappeared - and that none of my security programs would open.
In fact, NONE of my programs would open!
I shut down - had to turn off the power to do that - and figured "OK, now is the time I se how good HD Clone really is!"...
SO I put in the DVD I made for starting HD Clone, it loaded and I selected migration to reverse what I had just done a few days before, format the C drive and reload it with the Win 7 files....
Since this was the first attempt to use the DVD I got a message that I needed to go to the HDClone website to get a "verification"code...using that PC that had no working browsers...!
Obviously, that wasn't going to happen. Now, I understand the need to have licenses to control use of a product - but this seems to be a somewhat overbearing situation - when the machine is broken, how are you supposed to get the permission to use the tool on that machine?
I would like to suggest a better, more flexible, solution - have the DVD program capable of contacting Miray directly, send the license code to the site, and receive back the verification code. Of course, this assumes the PC is capable of accessing the web...but if it isn't, is there another way to get the needed code?
I took the PC into a technician, who used super powers to rid my PC of all of the bad stuff, and I am in the process of running some security scans to verify that to be true...and I thought I would pass this along, with the hope that someone will see the logic of my observation...