Winclone image restore results in blue screen in bootcamp startup

Hi


I am trying to move my Bootcamp in MBP to an iMac 2011 via WinClone. This is what I did..


1. Took an image of the Windows partition using WinClone. Originally 50GB.. but the image size is 40GB uncompressed.

2. Created a new Bootcamp partition 100GB.

3. Restored the image into the new partition.

4. Tried to restart in windows and it fails with a blue screen. Tried to boot in safe mode.. still blue screen and restarts.


I tried to put a windows boot DVD but no luck there.


Can anyone help who has done this? I am on Snow Leopard.


Thanks.

Posted on Jun 15, 2011 8:03 AM

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Jun 28, 2011 7:29 PM in response to ndesilva

I'm experiencing similar problems, but with two known-good Winclone Windows 7 images that were sysprepped prior to capture (one compressed, the other not). During first boot, Windows gets to 64% complete on installing drivers, then goes to a blue screen momentarily before rebooting on its own. During next reboot, status displayed reads "setup is starting services", but there is also an "Install Windows" dialog/error box that reads: "The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click "OK" to restart the computer, and then restart the installation."


Of course, clicking on OK and restarting does no good in normal or safe mode.


This is occurring on new out of the box Mac Pros, updated to 10.6.8. The uncompressed image worked flawlessly three weeks ago on a nearly identical new Mac Pro running 10.6.7.


I'm posting this before attempting to rollback to 10.6.7. I'll follow up if I get a resolution.

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