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Should I get a 5 license instead of a 3 because upgrading the OS uses up a license?

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I have a laptop with Win 7 and Win 8.0 on it. I may upgrade Win 8.0 to 8.1 then on to Win 10 if I can get past the error messages that are currently blocking my upgrade path. Do I use up a license each time I upgrade my OS? Should I get a 5 license instead of a 3 license because upgrading the OS uses up a license?

BTW: I keep getting a CAPTCHA session reuse attack detected. This is my first post in years.

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Eric, you should only need one license per machine not per OS assuming that you can only use Acronis on one OS at a time and not have it in use in multiple OS's on the same machine at the same time, which is unlikely!

Windows 8.0 is no longer a supported OS from Microsoft, you should upgrade to 8.1 before it will allow you to go to 10.

See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media for information about downloading and using the Windows 8.1 Media Creation Tool to perform the upgrade.  There is also a Windows 10 version of the same tool but you will need to get to 8.1 first and perform an Upgrade to get this free.

For the Captcha issue, I would suggest cleaning out your browser cache and cookies.

To be clear, you don't need a new license because you upgrade or change the OS.

You should be aware that if you have 1 PC that is partitioned and operates dual booting into either Windows 7 or Windows 10 by selecing at boot up you still need 2 licences if you want Trueimage on both operating systems.

tellboy, sorry but you are incorrect in your statement and this has been confirmed by Acronis Support previously - ATIH is licensed according to the hardware signature of the system it is installed / activated on, therefore if you use dual-boot with two different Windows versions, your hardware signature remains exactly the same and the same serial number is valid for both operating systems.

See the statement by gaidar - General Manager Acronis True Image on this subject:

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/113005#comment-333481

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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General Manager
Acronis True Image

 

Thanks for your updated information. I think it might be McAfee AntiVirus licensng that made me use 2 licences on one PC as it was per Operating System.

Nice to know Acronis are more enlightened.

Yes, very nice indeed!  The only time you need additional liceneses on the same PC is for each VM as they are considered "different hardware" since they use the processor differently.  Physical installs on the same disk, or even on different disks in the same pc are all covered by the same license on that motherboard though.