[PrimeExpert Software Giveaway - 2023] 10 x FlashBoot Pro Lifetime Licenses

About the giveaway:-

I would like to thank @PrimeExpert Software for this generous offering of 10 Lifetime licenses of FlashBoot Pro for our My Digital Life Forum members.

Homepage: https://www.prime-expert.com/​

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About FlashBoot
Migrate your entire OS to a new PC, have a copy of your computer in your pocket, or downgrade from Windows 10/11 to Windows 7.

FlashBoot is a tool which can save your time on Windows reinstallation. Create an installable clone of Windows 7/8.x/10/11 (including all your apps and data) on USB thumbdrive/HDD and instantly transfer your entire OS to another computer, even with dissimilar hardware: FlashBoot supports driver integration and comes with a large set of prepackaged drivers. In the case of next ransomware virus attack, loss/theft of laptop, hard drive failure or Windows Update failure, you can have a safely-stored copy of the OS and all programs, which can be restored quickly.

Bootable clones are another FlashBoot feature which enables you to boot Windows 8.x/10/11 directly from USB storage device on any PC. Have a copy of your computer in your pocket, ready to go under any circumstance. Need your favorite app, document, game, or browser when you're sitting in front of a strange computer? Just break out your USB device prepared with FlashBoot!

Also using FlashBoot you can install Windows 7 to new computers, even with NVMe storage devices and USB 3.x controllers. FlashBoot can prepare Windows Setup on USB thumbdrive with all necessary drivers integrated, and additionally FlashBoot can gain unpartitioned disk space for dual-boot configurations by reinstalling your OEM copy of Windows 10/11 in-place.

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Spoiler: FlashBoot Features

- Create installable clone of Windows on USB thumbdrive
FlashBoot Pro can create installable clone of Windows 7/8.x/10/11 on USB thumbdrive or USB HDD. This self-extracting backup of entire OS (Windows with all installed apps and settings) can be used to:

• transfer entire OS from old computer to a new computer, even with dissimilar hardware
• move entire OS from HDD to SATA SSD or to NVMe SSD (including the ability to copy to a smaller-capacity drive)
• recover entire OS after next ransomware virus attack, failed Windows update, accidently deleted file, failed hard disk or lost/stolen laptop
• shrink preinstalled Windows 10/11 to gain free space for dual-boot with Windows 7 or Linux
• move entire OS from/to RAID array
• copy entire OS between virtual machine and real hardware (or between virtual machines of different vendors)
• switch Windows boot method between UEFI and non-UEFI

Optionally, you may choose to integrate drivers to an installable clone of Windows, which makes sense if you are going to reinstall Windows to a new PC with dissimilar hardware (such as USB 3.0 controller or NVMe bootable storage device). Alternatively, drivers for target storage device (such as RAID controller or NVMe SSD) can be added later, during Windows reinstallation.

Existing files will be compressed, so for this operation usually you need smaller capacity USB storage device than your disk C:. Typical compression ratio is 50-60%.

More info: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/create-installable-clone-of-windows/


- Create bootable clone of Windows 10/11 or Windows 8.x on USB thumbdrive
With FlashBoot, you can clone your existing Windows 10/11 or Windows 8.x installation (including apps, settings, documents, games, browsers etc) from internal HDD or SSD to external USB thumbdrive or USB HDD.

By default, existing files will be compressed, so for this operation usually you need smaller capacity USB storage device than your disk C:. Typical compression ratio is 35-45%. During live sessions, Windows on USB thumbdrive will store all new files and all updated files in decompressed form.

System partition on USB storage device will have different unique identifier from original system partition on internal HDD/SSD, so there will be no conflicts or collisions when booting USB thumbdrive on the source PC.

This feature is particularly useful for travellers (who want to save time on reinstalling apps in Windows To Go installation) and as live backup copy (which will be of good use in the case of next ransomware virus attack, failed Windows update, or accidently deleted file).

More info: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/create-bootable-clone-of-windows-10-or-windows-8.1/


- Install Windows 7 to New Laptop or New PC
If you dislike Windows 10/11 due to OS-builtin advertising, forced updates, untimely reboots and pervasive telemetry (which can't be disabled) — then only viable option is returning to Windows 7.

But hardware marches on, and older operating systems hardly can play catch-up. Installation of Windows 7 to new laptop fails right on the first screen: mouse, keyboard and boot device are all inaccessible to Windows setup because of missing USB 3.x drivers. In this case, error message like this appears:



A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.

Because of missing drivers for USB 3.x controller, any plugged-in USB thumbdrive is ignored here, and also it's impossible to move cursor and click OK, because USB-connected mouse and keyboard doesn't work as well.

Using FlashBoot, you can install Windows 7 to new laptop or new PC with no hassles. FlashBoot will prepare Windows setup on USB thumbdrive with integrated drivers, so you can easily and quickly install Windows 7 to any new computer, including Skylake, Kabylake and Ryzen platforms. For your convenience, FlashBoot contains builtin USB 3.x, NVMe and RAID drivers. FlashBoot can also integrate any user-supplied drivers (.inf + .sys + .cat files).

More info: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/install-windows7-to-new-laptop-or-new-pc/


- Install full-featured Windows 8.x/10/11 to USB thumbdrive
With FlashBoot, you can install Windows 8.x/10/11 to USB thumbdrive, and walk about with a full-featured installation of Windows 11, 10, 8.1 or 8 in your pocket, ready to go under any circumstance: at home, at friend's home, at work, at public library or internet-cafe. Need your favorite app, document, game, or browser when you're sitting in front of a strange computer? Just break out your USB device formatted using FlashBoot!

More info: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/install-full-featured-windows-to-usb-thumbdrive/


- Save/restore USB thumbdrive to/from image file
If you have bootable USB thumbdrive with some useful content, and you want to temporarily reuse it for other purpose, FlashBoot can save contents of that USB thumbdrive to image file, and restore it later. USB thumbdrive will be saved in full state, so bootability will be retained.

Also you can use this feature to write raw images (downloaded from the internet) to USB thumbdrives or MicroSD cards. Let's take Raspberry Pi OS as an example to demonstrate this feature: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer manufactured by Raspberry PI Foundation that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It's a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games.

Raspberry Pi is also very useful for DIY hobbysts and can be a hardware platform for embedded appliances like TV set top box or supermarket checkout terminal or maybe even ATM.
More info: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/save-restore-usb-thumbdrive-to-from-image-file/


- Convert Windows XP or BartPE to bootable USB thumbdrive
With FlashBoot, you can convert Windows XP setup CD or BartPE to USB thumbdrive, so you could install Windows XP from USB thumbdrive, or run mini-version of Windows XP from USB thumbdrive.

More info: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features_v3/convert-windowsxp-or-bartpe-cd-to-bootable-usb/

Spoiler: FlashBoot Pro vs other paid tools

Unlike other paid tools for disk cloning and imaging, your copy of FlashBoot is not bound to one PC. You can use it on multiple computers you own without paying extra money. FlashBoot license does not require any kind of online activation.

Unlike other paid tools, disk images created by FlashBoot are not encrypted by "group key" for 5 PCs or so. Disk images created by FlashBoot can be restored or booted from on any number of different PC(s), even with dissimilar hardware.

Unlike other paid tools, FlashBoot runs on Windows Server operating systems as fine as on mainstream client Windows operating systems. There's no need to pay extra for separate overpriced "edition" just for compatibility with Windows Server.

Unlike other paid tools, FlashBoot has free updates and free upgrades for lifetime. You don't have to pay every year for new versions, and there are no artificially introduced incompatibilities in disk image format. It's enough to pay once.

Spoiler: FlashBoot Free vs other free tools

Unlike other free tools for USB mass storage device formatting, FlashBoot can create FAT32 filesystems on USB thumdrives larger than 32 Gb. This is especially important in UEFI environment, where filesystem on USB thumbdrive must be recognized by motherboard firmware, and so NTFS is not supported.

Unlike other free tools, FlashBoot can work with USB thumdrives which have no drive letter assigned or have no partitions. If capacity of USB thumdrive was reduced by other tools (for example, 64 Gb USB thumbdrive has become 32 Gb USB thumbdrive), then FlashBoot will automatically recover it to full capacity.

Unlike other free tools, FlashBoot supports ESD format of source Windows installation images (in addition to ISO image files and directly-accessed DVD disks).

Unlike other free tools, FlashBoot remains fully functional under Windows XP. This is because FlashBoot does not mount registry hives, FAT filesystems, WIM and VHD images via Windows kernel. These features are implemented inside FlashBoot, without invocation of platform-specific tools.

For specific formatting scenarios, where compatibility with older computers matters, FlashBoot formats USB thumbdrives in such way that they will boot both in USB-ZIP and USB-HDD mode, regardless of BIOS settings. For such cases, FlashBoot also allows to specify disk CHS geometry explicitly at format time, as well as target drive letter, i.e. A: or C:

FlashBoot supports command line interface as alternative to GUI for power users who need automation or unattended operation.

Last but not the least: FlashBoot stands against the always-online, spy-on-everything, everything-is-a-service, subscribe-not-buy, force-updates-you-don't-want madness of recent years. FlashBoot does not interact with the internet in any way — it's up to you to decide if update is necessary. No toolbars, no ads, no spamming through e-mail database and no other crap in the installer, software and website.

Spoiler: Detailed comparison of FlashBoot Free vs FlashBoot Pro

More info about the software: https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/

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Giveaway Caveats:-
• Giveaway edition of the software is not time limited, does not require activation, it is not bound to hardware (same as paid edition).
• Giveaway edition of the software has all features of the paid edition, except the free updates to subsequent versions.

Important Giveaway rules:-

1. Only one entry allowed per household.
And try not to post (participate) more than once in a giveaway.

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And at last, please comment something that should indicate that you want to enter this competition.
Not just thanks or other one word comments.

Giveaway ends on June 4, 2023.

Good luck all.

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P.S. Do check out this interesting FlashBoot Next Feature Poll:- https://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/poll/