Bootcamp: Critical Process Died

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Bootcamp: Critical Process Died

Hi. I'm trying to install Windows 10 using Bootcamp on a mid-2013 Macbook Air. I recently upgraded my original 128GB ssd to an Sabrent Rocket 512GB ssd. Reinstalled Mojave and everything works fine. The installation of Windows 10 goes fine all the way till the setup screen says "Getting Devices Ready - 100%" and then goes on to "Getting Ready" and that is where it fails. A blue screen comes up and says "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart...". The stop code is CRITICAL PROCESS DIED. And then it goes into a restart loop. Can anyone help please? Thanks.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 11, 2020 4:39 AM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Jun 11, 2020 6:14 AM in response to vveer26

Non-Apple SSDs with adapters do not work properly for Windows on Mac via Bootcamp. You may want to consider cloning methods to get Windows on this device.

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vveer26 Author

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Jun 11, 2020 6:53 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks Loner T. If I restore my original Apple SSD and use Bootcamp to install Windows 10 on that, must I install everything that I want on the Windows partition before cloning it to the new non-Apple SSD, or can I just clone a freshly installed Windows (with all the necessary drivers installed and working first) onto the non-Apple SSD, and then install whatever software I need from there?

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