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Stuck on blue screen - WD backup

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I installed the version of Acronis available from Western Digital. I had to call WD to install a patch because my drive could not get past the paywall initially. After successfully installing the software, I went through the standard cloning steps listed (select source, select target drive, proceed). My computer restarted and a progress bar appeared. After ~20min, a blue screen with a pointer was left. An hour has passed with no information. 

Old drive: Samsung nvme connected via motherboard

New drive: WD nvme connected via external housing > USB-C

 

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Tom, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to your OEM version of ATI from WD

Next, when you start any clone from within Windows, you will be booting into a temporary Linux based OS environment and depending on what version of ATI your WD version is, this may not have support for newer NVMe type drives.

Please see forum topic: [IMPORTANT] CLONING - How NOT to do this - which was written after dealing with many cloning issues in the forums.

For your particular scenario, I would recommend not using cloning at all, or if you do, then create the Acronis bootable Rescue Media for attempting the clone, and swap the drives around before booting from that media, i.e. connect the new drive internally and the original one via your external housing.

The method I would recommend using would be:

  1. Make a full disk backup image of the Samsung drive to an external backup drive.
  2. Make the Acronis rescue media.
  3. Test that you are able to boot from the rescue media using the same BIOS boot mode that your Windows OS uses.  Run the command: msinfo32 in Windows to see what BIOS mode your OS uses.
  4. Shutdown the computer fully - hold the Shift key while clicking on Shutdown to avoid going into a hybrid sleep / hibernation state!
  5. Remove the Samsung drive, replace by the WD one.  Put the Samsung drive aside and leave it disconnected.
  6. Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media with your external backup drive connected.
  7. Recover your full disk backup from step 1 to the WD drive.
  8. Check the Log for successful completion before exiting from the rescue media.
  9. If all is good, shutdown, remove the rescue media and external drive.
  10. Boot into Windows from the new WD drive and check all is good.

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media