Minitool partitian wizard BSOD after trying to clone Crucial BX500 SSD to new Kingston A2000 NVMe

Lrustyshackleford on 19/12/2020 - 20:15

Hello everyone,

I installed a new Kingstone A2000 m.2 NVMe on my ASUS Tuf B450m-plus motherboard today. It has been so long since I did any PC configuration but a quick Google search led me to Minitool partitian wizard (version 11, since the latest version does not offer cloning in free version) to clone my current Crucial BX500 1TB 2.5" 3D NAND SATA SSD to the new NVMe. Old SSD has 586GB free of 931 GB.

I ran diskmgmt.msc first, a pop-up came through asking if I want the new NVMe to be MBR or GPT, I selected MBR (I read on a forum to select that option, so I did). Then I ran the minotool program and proceeded to cloning setup with default options (Fit partians to entire disk, Align partitions to 1MB). I immediately get an error that C drive is in use, which I read is normal, and I clicked on the restart option. The PC restarts and program runs as normal for 10-15 mins. Once the progress reaches 100% I get a BSOD saying BAD SYSTEM CONFIG INFO. The Windows 10 still boots from my old SSD, but the cloning to new NVMe fails and it is unbootable.

I have tried this twice now and same error.

Can you guys please help me what am I doing wrong here, or recommend any other free software for cloning? Cheers.

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Comments

  • pjetson on 19/12/2020 - 22:22
    +1

    Kingston have their own cloning software https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/acronis-downlo…

    • rustyshackleford on 20/12/2020 - 06:12

      Damn I should have thought about that. Thank you so much, will give it a try :)

    • rustyshackleford on 20/12/2020 - 07:33

      It seems this is not a free software… or am I missing something here?

      • pjetson on 20/12/2020 - 21:40
        +1

        It looks to me like they're just asking you to register your drive to get the key. I don't have a Kingston drive, so I can't tell for sure.

        • rustyshackleford on 21/12/2020 - 03:26

          I thought so too and tried using the SSD's product ID but it did not work unfortunately.

          • pjetson on 21/12/2020 - 07:44
            +1

            @rustyshackleford: From reading the instructions, I'm pretty sure that you need to enter your SSD number on their web site and the web site makes a key for you. Have you tried following their instructions exactly?

            • rustyshackleford on 21/12/2020 - 15:28

              @pjetson: Correction: The Acronis True Image HD Software's key is located inside the SSD's packaging, can easily miss noticing that one. It's not the same as SSD's product ID. I had to go through my workplace's garbage to find the packaging lol. Will try that once I get home and hopefully it'll be smooth sailing from there onwards. Thanks again pjetson for not giving up on me haha :D

  • Switchblade88 on 19/12/2020 - 22:39
    +4

    Macrium Reflect is free, and you don't have to faff around with partitions at all - you're cloning whatever the existing drive has.

    Format your new drive any try again without setting any partitions up beforehand.

    • rustyshackleford on 20/12/2020 - 06:13

      Thank you, will definitely have a look in to this :)

      • mrhashish on 07/01/2021 - 18:29
        +1

        Def look into it. Easiest n prob free tool for cloning. Acronis has made a few machines I've had bsod after implementing changes with their software so I switched to macrium years ago.
        Most likely would've avoided this problem you're having altogether if using macrium instead. Minitool probably didn't change the cluster/sector size to match old drive which would cause probs on new drive, those positions you made penally compounded the issue. As different ssds have different internal drive structures which can chaise problems unless made to match original/new drive etc.

        As macrium will make an 1:1 copy/clone just expand or create new partitions out of the free space on the new drive once its done cloning to the new drive if there is any leftover.

        • rustyshackleford on 07/01/2021 - 20:24

          Thank you for the detailed reply mrhashish :)
          The cloning process went well, but there were some other things I wanted to change so I ended up de-registering my previous installatin of Windows and installing a fresh copy on the new SSD lol. All is good now but I will definitely keep your advice in mind for future. Cheers.

  • ShannonN on 20/12/2020 - 00:07
    +2

    if you are using a UEFI BIOS select the drive to be a GPT partition when formatting otherwise the bios wont pick it up

    • rustyshackleford on 20/12/2020 - 06:14

      I had thought about that, but I can see the drive in BIOS which mean that shoudn't be the issue. I'll try the Kingston software as recommended by the kind gentleman above.

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