All SSD migration methods leading to Windows 7 corruption & boot eventual failure

Hello all,

I'm hoping you might be able to help me, I'm at the end of my tether with trying to switch my Dell Studio 1555 to a Samsung Evo 500gb ssd. Along with the SSD I bought a copy of Acronis True image 2014 with a USB 3 cable and drive bay to assist the migration around 6 months ago.

I regret using Acronis because it wasn't very intuitive and took a lot of reading, trial and error but managed to clone my drive (seemingly) successfully, until the OS starting showing signs of corruption perhaps 2 weeks later then stopped booting altogether. I tried this process two more times checking settings and cleaning my original drive (which still works perfectly). The result was the same so I tried a partition backup instead, I performed a chkdsk /r before the clones/backups. There is 4kb of bad sectors but that's been static for a long time so the drive isn't failing. I also made sure there is plenty of free space on the HDD before image.

Next I ditched acronis and tried the Samsung migrate software, it just fails during clone (no error info), so I then moved to Macrium Reflect which is a great program! But the result is the same using both clone and partition backup. I'm currently using the laptop with SSD in it after a partition backup and restore, which again seemed to work after first boot I got a windows message saying "Windows must be restarted to apply these changes" - no indication as to what those changes are (SSD detected?). After reboot the machine was a mess, programs not opening, task manager couldn't launch, visible UI corruption, errors galore. Restarted again and now it seems fine! ...but I'm not at all convinced. It's not fast like the SSD should be and I can't update to Windows 10 (keeps failing) and there are application warnings/errors in Event Viewer:

"The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. "

VSS Errors

I'm starting to think the the SSD is faulty but ran a dskchk on this some time ago and no errors.

Any ideas?

Hi Polarim12,

That's been suggested to me a few times by friends and I may well go down this route but am concerned that I can't even achieve a partition backup without problems when plenty others have successfully migrated to SSD on the studio 1555.

Update: after the last partition restore using macrium reflect the laptop seems to be working fine (apart from the massive system corruption experienced on the second boot) though I still can't upgrade to Windows 10 due to an Unknown Error: 80246008

I'm still left wondering if there is something wrong with the SSD. Does anyone know of a solid way to check it's integrity? ...before I dedicate yet many more hours to a fresh install.