Blue screen first
Hello everyone, I hope one of you can help me. I purchased 2 new SSD's from PNY. Both came with free subscriptions to Acronis. I've tried both SSD's and both serial numbers and the same thing happens. I'm trying to replace a laptop hard drive with one of the SSD's. I've followed all the instructions but nothing helps.
The laptop is an MSI A6000. It's got Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit and 4 gigs of ram. I hook up the original hard drive via USB and install the SSD in the laptop. I start the system from a disk I burned per Acronis instructions and clone the old drive to the new one. After it's finished and I've removed the disk and disconnected the old drive from the USB port, I boot up the laptop.
Every single time it will start to boot, get to the screen with the word 'Windows' and those little dots of color that swirl to make the Windows Emblem and then it freezes. It then blue screens for a second and reboots. It reboots to Windows just fine. The thing is...it shouldn't blue screen first. I had 2 other SSD's that I tried first. They were Toshiba OCZ Trions. I thought there was something wrong with them and returned them for these 2 drives. I should have know it wasn't the disks. I tried the MSI recovery disks with the other SSD's and got the same results. I then used a Windows 7 install disk and everything works as it should.
I have the exact same laptop. About 6 months ago I bought an SSD for mine and installed it using the recovery disks from MSI and it worked just fine. I don't understand why only a Windows disk will work on this laptop since it's identical to the other one.
Anybody ever have this problem? Anyone have any ideas why this keeps happening? Thanks in advance for any and all assistance anyone gives.


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