Ready for Thursday's MBP upgrade/repair. The piece-of-shit 240 GB Kingston V300 SSD currently in the pre-unibody MBP (the one with the proper keyboard) has bad blocks. I have cloned it to a SanDisk Plus SSD also of 240 GB capacity. I hope not to lose any of the 27 screws that have to be removed & replaced in order to facilitate the SSD changeover.
I checked that the newly-cloned drive was bootable & used CarbonCopyCloner to replicate the Recovery partition on the new SSD. Now charging up the spare battery.