The clone went very smoothly, but when I booted I found it wasn't seeing the on-board audio hardware. I went into panic mode and wondered what I'd shorted out opening up the case. Then I turned to some Googling, and found a few posts around similar Acronis cloning issues.
At this point, I decided to pull out the big guns and got my Veeam Windows Agent backup on the case. My heart was still in my mouth as the standalone-boot 'bare metal' restore interface doesn't really tell you where it's restoring the data back to, and I have two 1TB drives in my system, one of them with 20 years worth of my photos, etc on. (yeh, I know...why isn't it backed up somewhere else....)
After 15 minutes of boot, restore (110GB) replace the SSD and boot again, my PC was moved over to the new SSD and no missing hardware.
So, if you want to do a proper job....get a proper product which actually costs the same as the free one - nothing!
