Standing warning from an IT pro : Make A Backup First.

This is no reflection on Pianoteq (which is very reliable software in my experience), but as a someone who made a living from computers and has changed more drives than I care to remember, the temptation is always to skip the tedious step of making a backup of important files before making the upgrade.

Don't skip this.  When these things go wrong (which happens even the best of us), they go wrong big time and you will need your backups.

Now retired from IT/telecomms work, but, yes, it's amazing the number of times people don't back up. First question of a user: have you backed up? Frequent response, a suddenly ashen face followed by can you come back in a bit. I shall always remember the occasion someone who came in to do confidential work and brought a floppy disk (yes, that long ago) to work from. It took quite some time to convince him to back up to a second floppy every time. Eventually he thanked me profusely when one floppy failed.

This is no reflection on Pianoteq (which is very reliable software in my experience), but as a someone who made a living from computers and has changed more drives than I care to remember, the temptation is always to skip the tedious step of making a backup of important files before making the upgrade.

Don't skip this.  When these things go wrong (which happens even the best of us), they go wrong big time and you will need your backups.

Thanks all for any hints and advice