SSD boot error

bagua092883

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I had a SATA drive that was failing so I decided to clone the drive onto another SATA and repair the corrupted boot sector to then clone onto a Samsung EVO SSD. After cloning it onto an alSSD and booting up with the SSD it allows me to boot into windows 7. However, after boot up and seeing all icons on desktop soon I get the BSOD with stop:0x0000003D error. How to fix?
 
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Just speculating based on the error code you listed. It is likely either Windows not playing nice with the SSD (therefore driver needed), it is a hardware issue, or your Windows installation got corrupted when you cloned it.

Those are my top three.
1. Keep in mind that if you clone garbage, garbage is what you get.

2. The point of this is that you MUST ensure that the "source" drive, i.e., the drive you will be cloning, functions in the PRESENT system problem-free, i.e., it boots without incident and functions without any problems while serving as the boot drive. This criteria MUST be met before you can carry out a successful disk-cloning operation to the destination drive, i.e., your Samsung SSD.

3. Now if the above criteria is met and your destination drive is non-defective, the disk-cloning operation should be successful assuming the volume of data cloned "fits" on the destination drive.
 

bagua092883

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Yes, that's the reason for making a duplicate on another SATA drive and fixing the errors before cloning onto the SSD.





 

bagua092883

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It's a clone of the original drive. All drivers are present. Further the ssd is recognized and boots up fine. Just that after entering windows the BSOD appears.



 

HamBown81

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Just speculating based on the error code you listed. It is likely either Windows not playing nice with the SSD (therefore driver needed), it is a hardware issue, or your Windows installation got corrupted when you cloned it.

Those are my top three.
 
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