while the ASR is capable of restoring to a larger or same size drive, yes, the authorizations themselves might be making note of the drives size etc , or use some type of copyright protection technique such as writing blocks to the end of the drive, or beginning, perhaps this difference of having a drive a different size makes this not function.etc.
because we all know that the instant daw does indeed work sometimes. and sometimes not... as far as plugin authorizations go.. just attempting to throw some type of explanation out to explain how it is that these different results can occur.. anyone else have a theory?