Progress. By the time I went back into the room, this time the disk seek or whatever it was trying to do in the
background of the blank screen completed to the desktop.

I'll try it a few more...

Today i gave AOMEI another try for disk copy. It seemed to run smoothly and I used all the defaults letting it make the PE whatevet that is. It restarts and runs the copy routine-- just like Old...

I actually tried to run AOMEI disk copy in Windows 10 and with my standard wireless mouse-- those are $4.00 on the 'Bay. A message in the program told me about the limitation. Perhaps I can make a...

Ghosting is used in a number of ways these days. In this case it's about the Norton program.
You are right it's really old. But though I've seen Macrium and Acronis they always seem confusing....

This might be it. Adata has a tools kit but I've simply not seen the necessity for it. This an Adata SSD.
I do not deal with partitons but only whole volume. But in thnking back of attempting a...

Last thing today:

After the Restore of the Source SSD, I reran the Ghost prog with no hangups from the
wrong sort of mouse for the Ghost program.

On reboot with only the HD Win10 starts...

One detail I have not known how to explain but am trying to fix is that in one of my operations to fix
I was able to run the Win7 repair disk.

What that produced in Win10 was a dual boot message....

Ok, I'll get one made for Win10 when I can.

Is there a preferred program and method to simply clone an SSD install of Win10 to a freshly formatted hard disk with plenty of room. Format and MBR was done through Win10 on the SSD to the HD.

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