Dual Booting
I have one computer that can boot to Windows10 Pro or Windows7 Ultimate (two different ssd hard drives).
Do I need a separate license for True Image for each?


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Hello, Joseph and Enchantech,
I was under the impression that the license was on a "per computer" basis ?
I have a 3 computer license not a 3 OS license.
Every once in a while I slide out my working HDD and replace it with my emergency backup drive, and update some data.
Both drives have the same Win 10 OS and loaded programs.
I would think that my license for that computer would cover the second emergency drive even if it had the original Win 8 OS on it.
Even if I got sick of Win 10 (which I wont) and pulled that drive out, and replaced it with my earlier Win 7 disk, I feel that I am still in license compliance since I am only using one machine and am covered with a valid license for that machine and 2 others.
If I am wrong on this logic, I need to re-think my licensing arrangement. Oh gee... I would be totally out of license compliance because I also slide out the Master HDD and insert my Win10 "Play Drive" on occassion. We all need some down time on occassion. My "Play Drive" has the same registered Win 10 OS and TIH2016 but not all the other working programs.
So, If I boot up all 3 machines at the same time, I have 3 TIH2016 licensed programs available for use but never more than 3 on any occassion.
That seems proper to me. Otherwise, I would need 3 licenses for that one computer.
Steve
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Hello Steve,
You are correct that True Image licensing is on a by machine basis. In your scenarios you would be removing an OS install disk and replaceing with another. I believe that you are correct in your logic.
I am not certain that is what the OP of this thread is doing however since he states he is dual booting the machine with 2 seperate drives. I think this is obviously subject to interpretation and how such different scenarios are viewed by Acronis.
Hopefully one of the support people will drop on and clarify.
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Enchantec,
Thank you for your reply. I was beginning to be concerned that my license use was incorrect.
I definitely did not want to use 3 licenses on one computer.
Thanks ! Have a great day !
Steve
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Guys --
Acronis True Image license is per computer. You may have multiple disks and boot to multiple operating system, and you will need only one license.
Gaidar
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gaidar wrote:Guys --
Acronis True Image license is per computer. You may have multiple disks and boot to multiple operating system, and you will need only one license.
Gaidar
If that is the case, that is indeed great news and would like to encourage that this be made easily available as I think it is something that many other backup applications don't offer! I always thought one computer was a specific OS installation. It seems like this still does not apply to VM's on a single machine though (which is basically the same as having multiple OS's installed on a single hard drive, or multiple hard drives in a single computer). Are we saying that a single computer, with multiple VM's on it, would also be covered under a single license? The information below seems to say that each VM would need it's own license.
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/company/licensing.html
Acronis® True Image™ Cloud Acronis® True Image™ Unlimited |
The license is based on the purchased subscription term for the specified number of machines (physical or virtual). Each end user licensee may utilize no more than ten (10) licenses of these products at any given time. |
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Perhaps the wording in the licensing agreement can be updated a little bit too - it is still a little confusing. At first it says that a license is per machine based on a single OS environment. Then it says that a single OS environment can have multiple OS on that machine which matches what Gaidar is saying. However, that seems to only apply to physical installations and not VM's which would also meet the criteria of "even if multiple operating systems are installed on a single computer". This also leads me to believe that on a dual boot system that has Windows and something like OS X, you would need one license for each OS on that physical computer system because of the different OS being run?
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/company/licensing.html
LICENSING POLICY
All of the Acronis ® and GroupLogic ® software products ("Software") are licensed to end-users by Acronis International GmbH ("Acronis").
The standard licensing policy is based on the number of machines, either physical or virtual, which our Software is used for. A "Machine" means a single operating environment. For instance, a Windows or Linux operating system is considered a single "machine," even if multiple operating systems are installed on a single computer. (
Acronis® True Image™ Cloud Acronis® True Image™ Unlimited |
The license is based on the purchased subscription term for the specified number of machines (physical or virtual). Each end user licensee may utilize no more than ten (10) licenses of these products at any given time. |
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Thank you for your response. How will your program know it is the same machine. I don't want to install it on my Windows10 and then lose the license on my Windows7 where it is currently installed. I want to work out the situation before I do the install.
Joe D
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I am checking the actual mechanic of machine ID verification and will provide the details tomorrow.
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Result of my investigation: the license will work on a machine on various disks and various operating systems, as long as CPU ID and BIOS ID are the same. The license will not work on a virtual machine as CPU and BIOS ID will be different. Thus the scenario with multi-boot will work, as well as multiple disks with same or different copies of your system (I use that setup for testing purposes myself).
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Thank you Gaidar for the great clarification. There should be no question now as to how this works on multi-boot machines.
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gaidar wrote:Guys --
Acronis True Image license is per computer. You may have multiple disks and boot to multiple operating system, and you will need only one license.
Gaidar
Hello Gaidar
I have three partitions on your single HDD, I am saying that I have different Windows OS installed on these three partitions where I am installing ATIH 2017
Three different Windows OS installed are :
Windows 8.1 pro x32
Windows 8.1 pro x64
Windows 10 pro x32
and
they are being installed on the same physical hardware
only one OS is active at any one time.
But ATI displays - "Activation Required " All Operations except recovery are unavailable.
I have three partitions on single HDD.
I have installed ATI 2017 on one partition.
Than I also installed ATI2017 ( used same email ) on 2nd Partition but it did not activate !!!
Please help !
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