First of all, thanks to the Ars community ~ I've been a lurker for a while and this is my first post. I recently bought a laptop for a relative ~ an ASUS X200CA; a low-end affair, yes, but he's ...

I have an older machine I wanted to use as a VM host (because I can export them later if I replace the box) but the drive was slooow, so I used Macrium to clone it onto an SSD. I should have unplugged ...