2015 is 2014?
I just received ATI 2015 by download (and updte) with a new Crucial SSD. And the ever-helpful folks at Acronis show it as ATI 2014 after registration, a good trick since the program installed in 2015. Since they show it as 2014 they also don't provide any support for it, which is doubly shabby since it is the new/current product as far as I can tell, being shipped as such anyway.
So that's issue #1, why is 2015 seen as 2014 ? Why is the current OEM product being called obsolete?
And then there's th reason I came looking forsupport in the first place. The new drive is 2GB in size, and I'd like to "clone" the existing 1GB boot drive onto it. I say "clone" in quotes, since I don't want an exact copy, I want to clone the drive onto a larger new one--and use all the space for one partition, same as the existing drive in all ways, just larger.
But no matter which options I select, ATI will not let me do that. It will only clone the old drive onto a 1GB partition that it wants to make on the new drive, and it will not let me expend that partition size. Which is especially crazy since the usual purpose for buying a new drive is exactly that, replacing an older smaller drive without making any other changes. And that's what the software was supplied for, specifically.
So, what's with the idiocy? Are the OEM versions intentionally obsoleted and unsupported? Is ATI really intentionally crippled, so the OEM versions can't do the job they are being shipped to do? Or did I miss a secret menu option?
Acronis reminds e of Charlie Brown kicking the football every year. They just never seem able to do it.


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