Thank you. Turns out the Acer USB recovery disk is the wrong method. I put both drives back in and cloned the OEM HDD to the new SSD using Macrium Reflect free, and it worked perfectly. Running with just the new SSD in there.
i'm sure I'll have more questions in time, but for now this is...
Hi all, I'm terribly confused and I hope someone can help me figure out what I"m doing wrong.
These are the steps I've taken-- OS Win 8, pre-installed by Acer.
1) Make recovery USB using the Acer recovery wizard, with the laptop in stock configuration.
2) Install msata as secondary drive
3) Go...