Feature REQUESTS

[Mint]

False, data recovery can also be preformed from the HBS application.

In this case, the application reboots the computer into a permanent or one-time WinPE environment, and the recovery is still performed in the WinPE environment.

That only happens if you're restoring a an image containing an operating system to the drive in use IE the C drive.

If you're restoring the drive to another drive such as D: or E: this will not happen. Nor will it happen if you restore files and folders individually. It also won't happen if you restore partitions to the non system drive.

Worrying about not being able to restore data from an image file in the future is redundant, even if we release the paid version, we won't restrict users from performing restores, and besides, we'll always keep the free version. We are not greedy or controlled by capitalists, otherwise HBS would have already launched the paid version, and look at the prices of our other products, they are very cheap and none of them use the subscription model.

Money is not the issue. The reason I stopped using Macrium Reflect, wasn't because they started charging money for it. It was because they added DRM (anti piracy technology) which hurts the preservation of both the software and the data that was backed up with it. 

Take winrar for example. A smaller less sophisticated backup tool that will continue to work.
Regardless if you've paid for it or not. 
Regardless if it's outdated or not. 
This is to ensure preservation, so that you can still use it in the event of an emergency. This is why preservation is so important.