On 10/28/2019 4:04 PM, Birdie wrote:
Lenovo T500 Win XP Pro.

Installed Samsung SSD and used for a year.Â* Had fast boot and no problems.

Then Samsung SSD would not boot.
Started boot but not finish.Â* Tried Safe Mode etc.Â* No Go.
See multiple things loading then quits.

Put in original HDD and used it for a week.Â* No problems.

Bought a new SSD Samsung 860 Pro 256G.

Used Samsung app to clone new SSD.

This SSD fails immediately at boot.
Just says used Ctrl Alt Del to reboot.

Booted from my Macrium Rescue CD that I created from this laptop.
Booted ok.
Tried to use the Boot Fix in the Macrium Rescue CD.
Then tried to boot the new SSD again and it immediately failed.
Just says used Ctrl Alt Del to reboot.

Reinstalled original HDD and it booted just fine and I am now on the
laptop with this HDD.

Suggestions please to fix or whatever please ?
If you mean you cloned your broken SSD over to the new one then I would
expect the new one to also fail to boot as the Windows OS you cloned
might itself be defective. Microsoft has sent out a couple of defective
updates lately which can cause computers to no longer boot properly.

With the quality of Microsoft updates going into the toilet I would
strongly suggest people invest in making system backups or clones of the
working system to protect you from problems like this.

You might want to do a search to see how to do a reload of windows while
still keeping your existing data files intact. One way is to use a
bootable install DVD or USB and use that to get things started. Read
about it first as if you get it even slightly wrong the entire SSD could
get reformatted.