Windows 10 desktop flashing and unresponsive after cloning HDD to new SSD and making boot drive

Drewfam

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So I bought a Crucial BX200 240GB ssd. I did a reinstall of Windows 10 on my old drive so I could clone it. I used Acronis which came with my ssd and cloned it just fine. I went to the boot menu and changed the order to my ssd to number 1. restarted and logged in fine till the desktop came up. After that it just flashed over and over and I couldn't do anything except open the task manager or hit control alt delete and restart. I cant run a msconfig search in the task bar with all the flashing its impossible. I thought maybe it was a display issue with my video driver so I switched back the boot order to my old drive and installed the neweset video driver. then I cloned the SSD again. changed the boot order back to SSD and the same thing. IM at a loss as to what to do now.

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"I did a reinstall of Windows 10 on my old drive so I could clone it"

Since you evidently have the means to install Windows 10, why didn't you just install it on the new SSD instead of cloning? Doesn't make any sense to me.
Hey there,Drewfam!

I'd second what @Phillip Corcoran mentioned and advise you to clean install the OS on the SSD. Just make sure you have the HDD unplugged at the time of the installation, otherwise you are bound to encounter an OS confusion and have some booting issues again. You can refer to some Windows Install & Optimization guides for SSDs & HDDs online and follow their detailed step-by-step instructions.
Make sure you have backed up all important data before beginning the procedure!
After the fresh install on the SSD is completed, plug your secondary HDD back to the SATA port and reformat it through Disk Management. This will erase all the data you have on the hard drive as well, so make sure your files are safe and sound elsewhere off-site.

Best of luck! :)
SuperSoph_WD