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SSD Swap needed, will this plan work?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1544858"><p>Yeah, the firmware update failure was annoying. THe update required booting from a USB stick with their update on it and Ubuntu in a skinny version. It booted fine, gave a legal disclaimer and license agreement fine and then the updater reported "No SSD detected." The way they set it up it was difficult to do anything but shutdown, but I figured out how to cancel their update program and drop back to the desktop, where there was nothing, zero, nada. But I could create a new folder on the desktop, which let me into the file structure and there was the SSD, all nicely mounted and perfectly visible! Made a couple of calls to tech support, got the virtual shoulder shrug and "send it back to us" solution. Not buying any more from them, so I got a different SSD.</p><p></p><p>As for cloning, I'm not going to do a block by block clone, more of a copy-everything clone, so that should work. I, too, have heard that SSDs don't like block by block cloning. </p><p></p><p>Thanks for your confirmation…I've done this before, but it's always good to get a second set of eyes before you do the heart surgery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1544858"] Yeah, the firmware update failure was annoying. THe update required booting from a USB stick with their update on it and Ubuntu in a skinny version. It booted fine, gave a legal disclaimer and license agreement fine and then the updater reported "No SSD detected." The way they set it up it was difficult to do anything but shutdown, but I figured out how to cancel their update program and drop back to the desktop, where there was nothing, zero, nada. But I could create a new folder on the desktop, which let me into the file structure and there was the SSD, all nicely mounted and perfectly visible! Made a couple of calls to tech support, got the virtual shoulder shrug and "send it back to us" solution. Not buying any more from them, so I got a different SSD. As for cloning, I'm not going to do a block by block clone, more of a copy-everything clone, so that should work. I, too, have heard that SSDs don't like block by block cloning. Thanks for your confirmation…I've done this before, but it's always good to get a second set of eyes before you do the heart surgery. [/QUOTE]
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