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    Cloned Win10 OS Boots to Desktop -- until 3rd or 4th reboot, then black screen


    I used disk images to clone an older win10 laptop OS to a newer laptop with different hardware. I know it's unwise, apologies, but I put many many hours put into customization of fussy customer's computer. When I did it with Acronis without Universal Restore -- UR was not avail since computer wouldn't boot from the usb stick, IT WORKED! Everything worked, except some of the drivers were missing so I installed them from the backed up FileRepository folder. I rebooted -- Again, back to desktop. Dev Mgr showed all drivers loaded, none missing. But upon the third reboot, after selecting

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