I've tried contacting Acronis, Sandisk, and Asus but they haven't been able to fix the issue either. Running 'chkdsk c: /r /f' and 'SFC /scannow' in Command Prompt
Here's a list of other things I've tried with no success: I've tried unplugging the new Sandisk SSD and I still get the same issue. Everything seems fine once it boots up and all my files are there, but it just seems like something isn't right with the boot-up process. Normally I see the Asus ROG logo and then a few seconds later it's done booting up, but now following the ROG logo I see a black screen with blinking white lines (almost like a command prompt) and then the blue Windows Logo appears. After that was done I noticed that the boot time had increased by 2-3x. So I made a backup of the Hard Drive onto an external hard drive and swapped out the HDD for the SSD and used the recovery feature in acronis to bring the files back. I bought a 2TB Sandisk Ultra SSD and used the application 'Acronis True Image 2020' which Sandisk recommended to transfer files from.
I was using the hard drive as a storage drive only (which the new SSD would replace), and was using a 500gb Samsung 860 Evo to boot from. Recently my hard drive has been making noise and clicking so I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade it and replace it with a SSD.
