[SOLVED] All kinds of BSOD after changing motherboard.

did you do a clean install of windows? if not your system is going to be pretty screwy. if you did do a clean install, you need to make sure you updated the bios and installed the current motherboard drivers. Do not install any GPU or CPU overclock or any of the various utility drivers until the system is stable for a while.

when you install windows 10 make sure you use a current windows 10 image rather than a old windows 10 disk. make the image from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Acronis True Image 2016 and on has a feature called 'restore to dissimilar hardware' which does exactly what you are looking for. Also has a free 30 day trial.

It is kind of funny (peculiar not ha-ha) that trying to just attach an existing HDD to new hardware sometimes just works, sometimes is just weird, and sometimes doesn't work at all. I believe a new clean installation is the very best thing you can do....but I just moved my boot and programs drive to a new motherboard with an I7 instead of an I5 and it worked perfectly. But I was prepared to do a fresh install or use Acronis from a fresh backup before I started.

Larry

Best practice is to do a fresh install. After you've tried the quick-and-lazy method and you're still having problems, it's a no-brainer. You'll spend far more time trying to iron out all these issues than you will just doing it the right way once.

when you do this it works but windows will think you have two sets of hardware, the old hardware that it thinks has stopped working and the new hardware that the plug and play system has detected. The major problems involve the new hardware using alternate hardware settings these alternate setting have more issues. you can get a fast device like a gpu waiting on a slow device like a mouse.
removeing devices in device manager can help, plug and play will reinstall them a few seconds later and that device will be ok. reinstalling is the best method but what the heck, make the plug and play deal with it if you want.

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I also felt it was like a small miracle that a totally different motherboard with a drastically different CPU just worked after i plugged in the original primary 512GB SSD and a 2TB HD.
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the error returned was:
Error code: (NTSTATUS) 0xc000000f (3221225487) - {File Not Found} The file %hs does not exist.
here is info on the boot process:
https://www.boyans.net/RepairWindows/RepairWindowsBCD.html

I think you need to get to a command prompt and run
bcdboot.exe c:\windows /s d: /f UEFI
(the d: would be the drive letter of the boot image you are using, it might be x: or some other drive letter)
it should put all of the various files in the correct place and update the non volatile ram in the machines firmware with the proper boot signature.
(or you can turn off secure boot or turn on some kind of legacy mode in the firmware so it does not check the bootup signature on the disk)

Hello Lawrence,

Thank you for contacting Acronis Customer Central. My name is Lucy.

This is the follow up email after our chat conversation we had earlier. You had contacted us as you wanted assistance in performing entire PC recovery.

Please find the overview steps on how to perform Entire PC recovery:

1) Validate the backup you want to restore from.

2) Create Acronis Bootable Media - A medium to perform recovery
- How to create Acronis Bootable Media : https://kb.acronis.com/content/60820

3) Prepare necessary drivers.

4) Create Acronis Universal Restore - A medium to inject drivers so that post recovery the system becomes bootable:
How to create Acronis Universal Restore : https://kb.acronis.com/content/59196

5) Connect Acronis Bootable Media to your computer and restart the computer. Restore your system.

6) After recovery, start your new computer once again and use Universal Restore to make the restored system bootable on the new hardware.

7) Now you can start the computer and work with your system restored to the new hardware

Please find the detailed steps on how to perform recovery:

1) Validate the backup you want to restore from.

**You can validate your Entire PC or system disk backup in two ways:
Using Acronis True Image in Windows: click the angle symbol near the backup you want to validate, and then click Validate.
Using bootable media: right-click the backup, and then click Validate Archive.

2) Prepare necessary drivers:

*Before applying Universal Restore to a Windows operating system, make sure that you have the drivers for the new HDD controller and the chipset. These drivers are critical to start the operating system. Use the CD or DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the vendor’s Web site. The driver files should have the *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions. If you download the drivers in the *.exe, *.cab or *.zip format, extract them using a third-party application (e.g. free 7-zip tool or any other).


Note: Please contact the hardware vendor

- Place them on a USB stick or an external drive

3) Create Acronis Bootable Media and Acronis Universal Restore ( separately -CD/DVD)

4) Restore your system with Acronis Bootable Media : https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2018/index.html#40032.html

5) After recovery, start your new computer once again and use Universal Restore to make the restored system bootable on the new hardware.

- Boot the machine once again with Acronis Universal Restore ( plug in the external hard-drive that have the drivers)

- Follow the propt

6) Now you can start the computer and work with your system restored to the new hardware.

normally the reserved partition is not assigned a drive letter. do not delete it, it is ok if it is assigned a drive letter.
in some cases it will prevent certain boot issues when you use a 3rd party storage driver like intel version rather than the generic microsoft version. do not delete the partition, you really need to keep it.

where is your system reserved partition? it should be about 400 or 500 MB
and it where the boot configuration files and boot manager will be placed.

otherwise I guess it would be placed on the main partion but i have not tried this in years.
it was a bad idea since malware could have access to the files if the are on the same partition.

try the command without specifying the volume

bcdboot.exe c:\windows

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/bcdboot-command-line-options-techref-di

Run each command in command prompt and let each command finish. Reboot post back the results.
bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /ScanOs
bootrec /RebuildBcd