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BSOD Bad System Config Info after uninstall of Acronis 2018

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It has been a nightmare weekend trying to clone my hard drive before installing into a new system with a new motherboard and CPU.  My drive was an SSD formatted MBR.  I cloned it and had no problems.  I then converted it to GPT for use in the new system.  I then wanted to clone the GPT drive to have another copy just in case but it kept hanging up "Preparing..." and even though I let it sit overnight, it never cloned.  Tried it twice with no luck.   I then decided to uninstall and reinstall Acronis 2018.  After uninstalling and rebooting, I got the BSOD with the error Bad System Config Info.  No matter what I tried, I could not get the system to boot.  Luckily, I had the MBR backup and started all over.  I am up and running again but am afraid that 1. Clone Disk will not clone my new drive after converting it to GPT and 2. If I try to uninstall and reinstall Acronis, it will crash again.  Any ideas will be helpful.  Thanks in advance.

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Peter, sorry but I personally would never consider using cloning to migrate a disk to new hardware as you are intent on doing per this and your previous topic.

Cloning is never mentioned in any of the guidance for using Acronis Universal Restore when migrating to new hardware.

Uninstalling ATI 2018 should not cause a BSOD unless you start following the documentation for using the Acronis Cleanup Tool and make mistakes when making changes to the Windows Registry. 

Normally, if you are considering that there may be an issue in ATI then doing a Repair Install is the first recommendation which doesn't need the current version to be uninstalled.

See KB 60915: Acronis True Image: repairing program settings - for details.

Steve, thank you again for taking the time to reply.  Since you replied to my previous post, you know I have been going through hell trying to get new this system up and running.  Then when my own system wouldn't boot at all, I really lost it.  Thank goodness I had another cloned drive to restore from. 

You say cloning is not the best method when migrating to a new system (again, I'm a novice when it comes to software issues).  I would have thought simply placing a working drive into the new system then installing the new drivers would be the fastest and easiest way to do it.  If it's not too much trouble, could you please point me in the direction of the best way to migrate to the new system while preserving Windows and all of my programs?  Please remember from my previous post that the motherboard CD which has the drivers on it are all in an EXE program which I have to install once the system is up and running rather than simply putting them onto the Universal Restore tool.  I did see the article on "how to restore to dissimilar hardware" but in the first step where it says to validate the backup, I assumed if I took the cloned drive and it booted in my original hardware that it was a valid backup.  I guess you (they) mean it should be a partition backup in ATI and not a clone?  Step 2, Prepare Your Drivers, is where I get hung up since I only have the CD with the installation software (EXE).  

Lastly, about the BSOD;  I did not try the Cleanup Tool.  I simply went to Settings, Apps, and uninstalled it.  Upon rebooting, that is when the system died.  I'm petrified to EVER uninstall it or even upgrade to a newer version with fear of the same thing happening again.  

Thanks again for you time and feedback.  I REALLY appreciate it.

Peter, did you read my post in the previous topic here at Sat, 10/23/2021 - 15:16?

Also did you read KB 62970: Acronis True Image 2020: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore which gives the steps that need to be followed?

My suggestion from 23rd October was to try doing a clean install of Windows (10 or 11) on the new PC so that you could capture the device drivers needed for the migration given that ASUS don't seem to want to make it easy for anyone to extract these from their EXE files used to install the drivers.  I did download some of the driver install files and try to find the required INF files etc but had no success in doing so.  I am assuming that doing a clean install of Windows will have sufficient generic drivers to get the OS installed to then allow the ASUS specific drivers to be installed?

On the topic of cloning, I dislike using it for various reasons, not least of which is that it puts the working source disk drive 'at risk' during the clone operation, i.e. if a user selects the incorrect source disk he/she can wipe out a working system by cloning an empty drive to it!

Using Backup & Recovery is 100% safer IMHO as the backup operation only writes to a third storage drive or location, and the original source drive can remain untouched and isolated when that backup image is then ported to a new system for being restored.

Another benefit of using Backup & Recovery is that you have no need to use the MBR2GPT tool provided by Microsoft on the source working disk drive, as the Recovery operation will do the conversion from MBR to GPT automatically when the Acronis rescue media is booted in UEFI (GPT) BIOS boot mode.

Regarding the uninstall issue for ATI 2018 - I have no explanation for why this caused the BSOD other than the other actions that had preceded the uninstall.  I have done hundreds of uninstalls and installs of lots of versions of ATI over the years without ever seeing such an issue arise.

So back to an action plan:

I would recommend putting one of your spare disk drives, ideally the one intended for use in the new PC, in that PC in the location where it will be used in normal operation.

Go to the Microsoft Windows 11 Download web page and download a copy of the installation media on your working PC and use this to create an installation DVD - or else use the Microsoft Media Creation tool from the same web page to do this directly to either a USB stick or DVD.

Install Windows 11 on the new PC and confirm that you can boot into the Windows desktop to allow you to then install the ASUS Chipset drivers application and any other ASUS drivers for the motherboard installed.

Once you have a working Win 11 PC, then you can use a utility program such as Double Driver to save a copy of the new ASUS device drivers to allow them to be added to the Acronis Universal Restore media during the creation process.

I would recommend installing a copy of ATI 2018 and AUR on the working Windows 11 PC and creating the 'Simple' Windows PE rescue media and AUR media on that system, so that the first media contains device drivers captured from the Windows 11 Recovery Environment, and the second has the extra ASUS drivers you add yourself.

Before attempting the restore of your original PC backup image, make a full disk backup of the working Windows 11 system to allow you to come back to that install should the migration still not be successful.

Steve, I can't thank you enough for all of your time and effort.  I really appreciate it.  Yes, I did read your post from 10/23 when I was trying to tackle the MBR to GPT problem (which, at the time, I thought was my only problem).  Since I thought that would solve the problem, it was much easier to just use the MBR2GPT tool.  However, in hindsight, I should have followed your directions and did the conversion and migration at the same time.  

I still think I have a hardware problem with the new system so I had to bring it in today for the place where I bought the motherboard, CPU and RAM, to take a look at it.  They will have it for a few days so I can't do anything until I get it back.  I, will, however, follow your directions once I know there are no hardware issues.  I attempted to install Win10 from a DVD onto a blank drive and it crashed, too, so I think there is a problem besides my ignorance.  

Once I get it up and running I'll mark this "as solution" but, in the meantime, thank you SO much for your expertise.  I will be making a system backup while I'm waiting for the system to be returned in preparation for the migration.