So,
I wound up going to the dodgy side of the WWW and found a download for the free trial version of
Macrium Reflect 8 (thanks, Sky). Install was mostly painless and I got the SSD cloned. Swapping it with the HD will happen later today.
With Acronis, what the
happened with those folks?
I've used their software for years without any issues, which was why I wound up buying one year of support. The new software will do what it says, if you beat on it enough, but its painfully slow. For whatever reason, Cloning is now a four letter word and I never got it to work but their other support/clean-up programs are still good. Which is why I'll stick around, for now. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope they get their
back in one sock.
Long term, I want to try the SSD as a main/boot drive and keep an eye on its performance but WD didn't score a lot of points with me. These things are supposed to be easy. Just getting the damned thing mounted and initialized was a chore.
