Restored Image blue screening after Windows Updates
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I have restored an image to the same size SSD that it was cloned from but now it is blue screening after running the 2022-04 Windows Update. I let it BS three times then it removed the update and booted fine. I decided to test it and see if that caused the BSOD by running the same update again. Sure enough once it restarted, it blue screened. This time, however, it would not remove the update and instead forced me to reinstall Windows. When it did, it removed all of the apps I had previously installed prior to cloning the initial drive. I have previously restored this image about 3 times without issue.
Do any of you know what may be causing this or what I can do to prevent this from happening in the future? The SSD I cloned is the exact same brand, size, everything as the ones I'm restoring to. I am also using the latest Clonezilla live version when doing the cloning/restoring. Thank you in advance!
Did you restore to the exact same machine?
Steven
No, to a different machine each time. It worked fine on the first couple I restored and the one before this last one but the one I just restored it to yesterday blue screened when restarting after running repair on Word.
So the image you saved for your MS Windows might lack the driver for the different hardware. You might have to install sysprep on your MS WIndows before you take an image of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysprep
Steven