Windows 10: Cloned imaged OS to new PC SSD, now getting blue screens

Imaging Win10...FROM:HP Pavilion 500-2014 PC, win10 on 1TB HDD, UEFI, Sata->AHCI -- BUT "Legacy Support - disable", "Secure Boot - disable" TO: Dell Inspiron 3891, UEFI only, Secure boot on, Sata->RAID. Had Win11 on 500gb SSD.Using Macrium Reflect Free. I installed it on the desktop of the new destination Win11 PC and chose&nb

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Blue Screen Cloning System Image

I had a PC that was using two SSD's in a RAID 0 array and they were not performing as I wanted, so I bought a large enough SSD so that I would not need the two. I made a system image in Windows 7 stored on an external USB, I took out the SSDs and put in the one new one. I changed the BIOS setting so it was no longer set to RAID, and attempted to restore the image onto this new SSD. It went smoothly, but then when attempting to boot into Windows I am getting a blue screen every time.

The code is 0x0000007B (0x80786B58, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000). I imagine this has something to do with the hard drive. But I've done things like this in the past with no issues. I was suspecting RAID is the issue since this is my first time cloning a system on a RAID array to a SSD not setup for RAID. Is there something I can do on the RAID PC prior to creating the system image, so that when I clone it I don't have these blue screen issues? I'm really trying to avoid having to do a clean install, which would be a headache.

 

Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

I kinda agree with you, but on a wholr, do not. While I have done things a bit differently than this specific situation, by installing Windows directly to the SSD, and cloning after, my testing shows that there are no issues doing this, very little that can go wrong, provided your system is stable.

There are certain features that must be disabled in this situation, like auto defrag and such, but even with a fresh install to the SSD, you need to take steps to ensure that you SSD performs properly, regardless of how the data got there.

Arming yourself with a bit of knowledge can go a long way.

Installing the latest chipset driver, and the RST Tools, will ensure optimal performance of the SSD. but rather than taking my advice, I suggest the OP takes a look here:

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sand...7-and-ssds-to-clone-windows-or-reinstall.aspx

Install A Solid State Drive In Your Notebook

Keep in mind, also, Digibucc, that many retail drives include software and such that very specifically is to be used to ttranser the OS from an existing mechanical drive to an SSD, and if there really was alot fo issues stemming from the cloning process, they would not have packages like that, simply to eliminate tech support costs. While not the optimal option, cloning is NOT a bad thing, as long as you take the nessecary steps.

 

Proper way of cloning the OS from HDD to SSD

I bought a new SSD for my laptop, so I wanted to clone the OS from HDD to SSD.

My questions are....





1. Should I clone the recovery and other 3 partitions to the SSD ? (C drive is obvious)

2. If I did clone all the 4 partitions to SSD, should I delete the older partitions from the HDD ?

3. Or can I clone only the C drive and use the other files from the HDD ?