Many thanks to Peter Blaise for his regular and knowledgeable comments on various software products here. It makes up for the generally useless commentary of the house (practically shill) “reviewers”, on each front page. I think he nailed it in his post #13903983. I’m just a hobbyist user, but I’ve been doing this since the dawn of the IBM PC. The replies of the fellow I take to be a developer’s rep seem pretty transparent.
Have to partly disagree with you Peter, in that I’ve been cloning both whole hard drives and individual partitions (the OS “boot drive” partition, in particular) for a long time now. Also using a few different OSes, not just successive editions of Windows. I always thought that the Windows-introduced “standard” of dumping everything — OS, programs, program data & storage — into one C: partition was terribly stupid, so I’ve never gone along with that.
Anyway, thanks again for your insights into which products are worth our bothering with, and which not !
[I hope SoS is not continuing those unfortunate message procedures that make it tremendously difficult to post here . . . . ]