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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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What's the bluescreen code - can you get a cell phone pic of it with the stop code?

In some cases, the disk remains locked after the process.  I've run into that recently after a clone from an NVME PCIE drive back to an SSD.  The fix for me was to 1) go into the bios and make sure the newly cloned drive is first in the boot priority - also remove the Acronis disc

2) Boot into safemode the very first time - that unlocks the disk.  After that, I can then boot to Windows just fine.

Also, are you changing from IDE to SATA or this is SATA to SATA?  IDE to SATA would likely BSOD due to the different controller which would not be an exact clone if you're changing hardware interfaces like that.  I found generic specs for the system, but can't tell what type of connections it offers for the drives (assuming SATA if it's just one drive though).

http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?id=149

What do you mean only a Windows disk will work on that system?  Are you talking about a winpe recovery media instead of the default linux media?  If that is the case, drivers are likely the difference.  The default recovery media is Linux and drivers are not as good for third party RAID controllers and some other 3rd party hardware (in some cases Nics, in some cases graphics cards).  

Is your SATA mode AHCI, or RAID in the bios?

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As another test, do you have another drive? If so, take a full disk backup and store it to the third drive. Then restore the entire disk to the new SSD.  The outcome should be the same as cloning, but also gives you a safety backup. Personally, I feel that backup and restore works the best.  I've only cloned when I've had no other choice (no available 3rd drive).  Cloning has more picky limitations and as a result, I try to go straight for a backup and restore which works every time. 

Unfortunately, the OEM versions are usually older and may have bugs.  The OEM's also heavily modify them so they are left to support them instead of Acronis as a result.