Do I Still Need To Do a Sysprep to Migrate to a Newer MacBook Pro

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Tim, I have a 2011 MacBook Air that has Windows 10 installed on it and it works fine. When I previously migrated it to my mid 2015 MacBook Pro, I am still getting the following Blue Screens of Death:

  • Unexpected Store Exception
  • Bad Pool Caller
  • System Service Exception What failed - atikmpag.sys

I watched the videos on Winclone 8 to migrate Bootcamp to a different MacBook. Your videos do not say that you need to do a Sysprep before doing the migration. It says to make a clone using Winclone 8 and then to migrate the clone image to a different MacBook. Do I still need to do a Sysprep?

I cannot install Catalina on the 2011 MacBook Air so this also means I cannot install Winclone 8 on it since it requires Catalina to do the installation.

I ran update and have Windows 10 at version 1909. I then used Winclone 7 to clone an image of my Bootcamp partition.

Now for my questions:

  1. Can I restore the Windows 10 clone image to my 2015 MacBook Pro without doing Sysprep?

  2. Will Winclone 8 take an image created with Winclone 7 and successfully migrate it to my MacBook Pro.

  3. Since my Bootcamp partition on my MacBook Pro is constantly having Blue Screens of Death, if I reinstall the latest version of all Windows drivers, do you think this might make the BSODs stop?

Thanks for your help!

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Yes

It will migrate the data and make it bootable, but success usually depends on drives. But it should.

drivers are a major reason for BSOD. So I would think so.

tim

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Tim, thanks so much for your answers to my questions. I will reinstall the drivers today.

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