[Rodney Edmonds]

with HDClone Free, I can boot to and create an image of as many computers as I want, but with Professional Edition, I cannot. I have a computer with a bad drive. I can see the drive when I boot to CD on the computer, but when I pull it and attach to another computer, the data is not visible. I want to boot my CD, and back the drive up to USB. It asks for a License, then when I try to Restore to another drive (same pc), it asks for ANOTHER License. Should I just use the Free version and have wasted money on Professional?

[Alex]

The Professional Edition has a workplace license, i.e. it is intended to install on a computer you use as a workplace, so you can make the cloning/restoring/backup there.

You can activate the workplace license on two PCs at the same time, if you deactivate (= uninstall) it, you can activate it on another PC (up to 5 different PCs can be activated this way).

The Free Edition has no such limitation, but it has of course other limitations in what it can do and how fast.


If you really need your HDClone to work on any computer, you’d need the Professional Edition Portable, which comes with an USB token that acts as activation and can be run on any computer.

In your case, you can activate it on two PCs. In other cases, it is probably a good idea plugging the drive into one dedicated PC that is used to perform all cloning tasks.