Cloned NVME M.2 SSD fails to boot

[cleric_warlock]

I've been trying to clone the boot drive (Samsung 512 GB) of my Corsair One i160 to a sabrent rocket 4TB SSD and so far the cloning process actually seems to be running as its supposed to, but the cloned rocket SSD immediately goes to a BSOD on start up when replaced into the boot drive NVME socket. I've been using the trial version of Macrium Reflect to do the cloning and have been having a very hard time trying to figure out what's wrong.

 

I have confirmed that hardware compatibility is not the issue as when my rocket SSD drive is installed as a boot drive and configured with a fresh copy of windows 11, my system works perfectly fine. Doing it this way is undesirable because cloning is the only way to transfer the OEM windows license on my original SSD along with all of my loaded programs and configurations. I have detailed screenshots relating to this problem in the imgur link below. How do I get my cloned SSD to boot?

 

https://imgur.com/a/TRbZ0mz

[saintlouisbagels]

I've never been able to get cloned drives to work, and I imagine most people would recommend you do a fresh reinstall on the new boot SSD (even though you would prefer not to).

 

You can actually disable a Windows license and re-use it on a new computer. I've done that with my Dell pre-built and transferred the license to my custom build. I don't fully remember how to do it but it required using command terminal. I don't remember the article I used since I've only ever done it two times in the past few years.

[cleric_warlock]

2 minutes ago, saint_louis_bagels said:

I've never been able to get cloned drives to work, and I imagine most people would recommend you do a fresh reinstall on the new boot SSD (even though you would prefer not to).

 

You can actually disable a Windows license and re-use it on a new computer. I've done that with my Dell pre-built and transferred the license to my custom build. I don't fully remember how to do it but it required using command terminal. I don't remember the article I used since I've only ever done it two times in the past few years.

do you remember if the license you transferred was specifically OEM?

[saintlouisbagels]

9 minutes ago, cleric_warlock said:

do you remember if the license you transferred was specifically OEM?

I think it's a fair assumption it was OEM.

The pre-built desktop didn't come with any documentation of what the Windows key was, and my online Dell account didn't have the information anywhere either.

[saintlouisbagels]

15 minutes ago, cleric_warlock said:

do you remember if the license you transferred was specifically OEM?

4 minutes ago, saint_louis_bagels said:

I think it's a fair assumption it was OEM.

The pre-built desktop didn't come with any documentation of what the Windows key was, and my online Dell account didn't have the information anywhere either.

I believe I used this article.

Once I found the Windows key, I saved it to a Text file. De-activated the license.

Then during setup of the new HDD, I input the license during install and there have been no issues since.

 

My custom built shares zero parts from the Dell pre-built.