Windows 10: Blue screens after SSD upgrade and disk clone, apparently driver-related

Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5570 which I recently upgraded to a Western Digital Blue SN550 WDS500G2B0C 500 Gb M.2 NVMe SSD. I then used Macrium Reflect 8 to clone my hard disk to the new SSD, and repartitioned the original hard disk to use as extra storage for rarely-used files. My SATA operation mode is set to RAID, if it matters, but I have no actual raid volumes set up. Changing to another mode only seemed to mess up the bootloader/BCD.This worked well for the first few weeks, but afterwards I started getting REFERENCE_BY_POINTER and

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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.

 

Repeated blue screens, apparent driver error

Hi Sam,

There are several factors that may trigger blue screen problems on your computer. Pending updates, outdated drivers, and software conflicts are some of these factors. To help narrow down this problem, we suggest that you go through this guided walk-through
troubleshooting steps:
Troubleshoot blue screen errors.

Please let us know the results so we can further assist you.

Regards.

 

Cloning HDD to SSD KEEPS FAILING

What are you using to perform the clone? Could you try some alternative steps described at the the following link?

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/clone-move-win...